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1Expressing truths and knowing truthsIn Brie Gertler (ed.), Privileged Access: Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge, Ashgate. 2003.
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Particulars and Their QualitiesPhilosophical Quarterly 18 (72). 1968.The traditional analysis of substances in terms of qualities which are supported by a "substratum" was rejected by conscientious empiricists like Berkeley, Hume and Russell on the grounds that only qualities, not the substratum, could be experienced. To these philosophers the proper alternative seemed obvious. One simply eliminates the "unknowable" element in which qualities are alleged to inhere. In Russell's words, "What would commonly be called a 'thing' is nothing but a bundle of coexisting …Read more
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Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
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Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |