The transparency of expressivism

Abstract The paper argues that Gareth Evans’ argument for transparent self-knowledge is based on a conflation of doxastic transparency with ascriptive transparency. Doxastic means belief about one’s own state, e.g., the one thinks it will rain, can be warranted by ordinary empirical observation, weather. In contrast, says self- ascriptions belief, “I believe rain”, such observation. We first show thesis ill-motivated and then offer non-epistemic interpretation reference to theory explicit expressive acts : think rain” requires attendance weather because utterance expresses weather, not ourselves. This allow us avoid what often called “the puzzle self-knowledge” while remaining faithful linguistic observations.