Organon F
Volume 27, February 2020, Issue 1, Pages 106–128
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
Self-knowledge, Discriminability, and Demonstrative Thoughts
Huiyuhl Yi
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27105
According to content externalism, the content of our thought is partly determined by the linguistic environment responsible for it. However, there is growing skepticism about the compatibility of content externalism and self-knowledge. The skeptical position holds that, if content externalism is true, then we cannot know our own thought content because we would not be able to discriminate it from relevant alternative thought contents. This argument rests on the proposition that knowledge requires some type of discriminability. In this paper, I argue that this requirement does not apply to a particular type of demonstrative thoughts, more specifically, that in a typical case where we demonstratively denote an object without taking it as anything, in particular, our second-order judgment about our own thinking, whose content includes this use of a demonstrative, constitutes knowledge without due discriminability.
Content externalism; demonstrative thought; discriminability; indefinite use of demonstratives; self-knowledge.
Author
Huiyuhl Yi
Affiliation
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Address
Division of General Studies, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 50 Unist-Gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Received
18 March 2019
Accepted
30 August 2019
Published online
14 September 2019
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Yi, H. (2020). Self-knowledge, Discriminability, and Demonstrative Thoughts. Organon F, 27(1), 106–128. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27105
Chicago
Yi, Huiyuhl. 2020. "Self-knowledge, Discriminability, and Demonstrative Thoughts." Organon F 27 (1): 106–128. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27105
Harvard
Yi, H. (2020). Self-knowledge, Discriminability, and Demonstrative Thoughts. Organon F, 27(1), pp. 106–128. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27105
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