 Wittgenstein suggests that, in such a situation, the word "beetle" could not be the name of a thing, because supposing that each person has something completely different in their boxes (or nothing at all) does not change the meaning of the word; the beetle as a private object "drops out of consideration as irrelevant".Thus, Wittgenstein argues, if we can talk about something, then it is not "private", in the sense considered.And, contrapositively, if we consider something to be indeed private, it follows that we "cannot talk about it".