Content and self-knowledge

Philosophical Topics 17 (1):5-26 (1989)
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This paper argues that, given a certain apparently inevitable thesis about content, we could not know our own minds. The thesis is that the content of a thought is determined by its relational properties

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10.5840/philtopics198917110

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reprint Boghossian, Paul (1989) "Content and self-knowledge". In Hill, Christopher S., Philosophy of Mind, pp. 5--26: University of Arkansas Press (1989)
reprint Boghossian, Paul A. (2000) "Content and Self-Knowledge". In Bernecker, Sven, Dretske, Fred I., Knowledge: readings in contemporary epistemology, pp. : Oxford University Press (2000)

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