Self-ascriptions of Belief and Transparency
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Self-ascriptions of Belief and Transparency
The access that we have to the contents of our own minds, in contrast with the access that we have to the minds of others, has three main prima facie features. First, it is authoritative: we have a special authority upon what happens in our own minds, in the sense that if we think that we are in a certain mental state it seems that we cannot be challenged. We can indeed make mistakes: our menta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Philosophy and Psychology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1878-5158,1878-5166
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-010-0044-x