Knowing Want I Want

As it is silly to ask somebody,‘How do you know you are in pain?’ it is equally foolish to ask, ‘How do you know that you want to go to the movies?’ Vendler, Res Cogitans Knowing that one wants to go to the movies is an example of self-knowledge, knowledge of one’s mental states. It may be fooli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byrne, Alex
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71819
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3652-1492