 In her paper “The First Person” [TFP], originally published in 1975, Anscombe argues for a thesis that seems patently false: the word “I” is not a referring expression. That is, while the function of a term like “Elizabeth Anscombe”, or “the daughter of Allen Anscombe”, or “that woman”, or “she” is referential, the term “I” does not function in the same way. “I” thus refers to nothing at all. (Compare with the use of ‘It’ in the thought “It is snowing.”) “The First Person” is probably Anscombe’s most difficult article – which is saying something – and even sympathetic scholars disagree about what the argument is supposed to be. She was clearly influenced by Geach 1957, and by Casteñada’s various papers on the first person. Later, Lewis 1979 discussed this issue in a distinct but by then familiar way.