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Donald Davidson

Print publication date: 2001

Print ISBN-13: 9780198237532

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0198237537.001.0001

Knowing One's Own Mind

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(p. 15 ) 2 Knowing One's Own Mind
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Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
Author(s):

Donald Davidson

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0198237537.003.0002

Is an attempt to resolve the following apparent difficulty: given that the contents of our minds are in part determined by external factors of which we are ignorant, how is it possible for us to know these contents without the need to appeal to evidence? Davidson resolves this difficulty by, among other things, giving up the idea of ‘objects before the mind’, for the attributes of such objects cannot be hidden from the agent.

Keywords:   content, evidence, external factors, knowing one's own mind, mind, objects before the mind

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