Wes Alwan
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No, I mean, I don't understand this fully, but the idea here, right, yeah, is that, well, he's against privileged authority, first-person authority.
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So we find out about our own states of mind in the way that we find out about others, not because we are inside them and they're immediately accessible to us, but because we are making inferences, I suppose.
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Yeah.
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my
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Yeah, because if she knew what you really thought, that'd be hell to pay.
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All right, keep going.
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Obviously, you're going to lie.
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All right.
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Ayer at one time took a line similar to Ryle's.
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In the concept of a person, he emphasizes that first-person descriptions can be in error, and he allows that such descriptions are privileged.
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Okay.
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But let's look at the footnote.
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That's
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1963.
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Okay.
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But when he comes to describe the authority of self-inscriptions, he compares it to the authority we sometimes allow an eyewitness when compared with secondhand reports.
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This analogy seems to me unsatisfactory for two reasons.
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First, it fails to tell us why a person is like an eyewitness with respect to his own mental states and events while others are not.
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And second, it does not suggest an accurate description of what first-person authority is like.
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For first-person, attributions are not based on better evidence, but often at least on no evidence at all.
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