 Things are different if we are tempted to say “The word ‘I’ is a word each of us uses in speaking of himself.” This use of ‘himself’ can’t be the ordinary reflexive, because, as we just saw, a person can speak of himself in cases where he wouldn’t also use the word ‘I’ to refer to the same thing. The word ‘himself’ in this newer attempt at explaining the word ‘I’ gets its distinctive sense from that of the word ‘I’. But since the sense of the indirect reflexive pronoun ‘himself’ depends upon that of the word ‘I’, we cannot use the indirect reflexive pronoun, as though we understand it independently, to explain the word ‘I’. Things instead are the other way around. This discussion displays the problem that ‘I’ poses, but it doesn’t solve it.