Knowing What I See

If I descry a hawk, I find the hawk but I do not find my seeing of the hawk. My seeing of the hawk seems to be a queerly transparent sort of process, transparent in that while a hawk is detected, nothing else is detected answering to the verb in 'see a hawk'. Ryle, The Concept of Mind 1. I...

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Main Author: Byrne, Alex (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press, 2012-07-25T20:54:06Z.
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