Note 133 — Chapter XXXVIII · THE METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE

It is scarcely necessary to add that our awareness of sensations does not presuppose any knowledge of space or of our human body as an object situated in space. When, for instance, an infant who is beginning to emerge into consciousness feels a pain in its leg, then one in its arm, it is not supposed that it succeeds in localising the two sensations in the two respective limbs. Only much later will it succeed in localising its sensations. For the present we are assuming that the infant knows nothing of space or of its body; it is merely registering sensations, and the pain in its leg will appear to it to differ in some obscure qualitative way from the pain in its arm.