Distinction without a difference.
Self-knowledge is metaphysics and epistemology.
Do I need to spell it for you?
It's exactly the same question?!?!?
Ooops!There is no question about experience that cannot be understood as semantic ( what do we use the word to refer to? ) or empirical ( neuroscience or psychology can measure it ). Prove me wrong.
You have epistemic warrant for the fact that I act in the same way that you do.
What does the word "understand" refer to?
Perhaps I should not, but I actually assume that my experience, although I cannot describe it, is consciousness.
That's unpossible. You have a grammatical problem.
I agree. Whatever it is, I call it consciousness and I recognize it (whenever I am conscious of it).
1. Grammar cops tell me the first is a verb and the next 3 are nouns.
I am not sure what logic has to do with it.commonsense wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:25 pm 2. If A had innate knowledge he might know how to answer the question, but it doesn’t logically follow that A would tell you what he knows.
OK,OK. You raise good points with #2. Rather than “logically follow” I should have said, like you, that he has choices and add that he wouldn’t of necessity have to choose to tell. (To me, logic dictates what is necessary. I may be wrong, but in any case that’s what lead me to bring up logic.)Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:32 pmI am not sure what logic has to do with it.commonsense wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:25 pm 2. If A had innate knowledge he might know how to answer the question, but it doesn’t logically follow that A would tell you what he knows.
He can choose to tell, or choose not to tell.
And you should pay close attention to his convenient discarding of the exact same set of questions pertaining to the referent of "experience".