On a cold day between Christmas and New Year 1961, in search of a place to study, I met Heinz in his office at the Biological Computer Laboratory. I knew of him through a network of designers who, like me, were interested in issues that conventional curricula did not address. Heinz greeted me, a total stranger, with the enthusiasm usually reserved for an old friend. To my surprise, he knew of t...

Abstract In Knowing and Seeing , Michael Ayers presents a view of what he calls primary knowledge according to which one who knows in that way both perspicuously how they know. Here, I use some general considerations about seeing, knowing, knowing order raise questions this view. More specifically, consider putative limits on one’s capacity know knows. The main question pursue concerns whether ...

Though there is a huge amount of the so-called epistemic logics that deal with propositional attitudes, i.e., sentences form “a knows P”, their ‘wh-cousins’ who what P is”, which Ps are Qs”, etc., have been, to best my knowledge, almost neglected. A similar disproportion can be observed between analysis Yes-No questions, has been under scrutiny many erotetic logics, and Wh-questions dealt just ...