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In this paper, I argue that neither the #257 argument nor the #258 argument in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations undermines the coherence of the Cartesian Model, according to which a sensation word, such as ‘headache’ or ‘tickle’, gets its meaning in virtue of an act of ‘inner’ association or ostensive definition. In addition, I argue against the standard assumption that the diarist’s language of #258 is logically private.