(BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE (2))[14th April 1987]

[Redbook3:184-193][19870414:1003](BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE (2))[14th April 1987]

19870414:1003

Reconsidering my arguments on Belief and Knowledge* – throughout the final 'non-speculative'** section on Inner Direct Knowledge***, there was a 'ghost at the banquet'**** phrase which kept trying to insert itself at the time or afterwards: 'as a statement': e.g. 'If I say that as I write I feel the quality of xP's presence, or see the intense dynamic innocence of xS's blue eyes, with an inner sense: then this will be absolutely true' 'as a statement' (Underlined words not originally included). I resisted this because it seemed too wide a limitation, equating Inner Direct Knowledge with Outer Direct Knowledge (where the speaker may have misinterpreted what he has seen): so far as Inner Direct Knowledge is concerned, provided the speaker is truthful (which we have assumed all along) and the statement is not misunderstood by the listener, the statement encompasses# the full reality of the experience, so far as the experience is, although real, entirely subjective.

*Ref. 118-131 [[Redbook3:118-131][19870405:1057](BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE{1})[5th April 1987]].

[& cf. [Redbook3:169-172][19870411:2200]{Archetypes and Qualities(1)}[11th April 1987] <20160409>]

**(or more 'logical')

***[[Redbook3:123-124][19870405:1057f](BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE{1}[continued(6)])[5th April 1987], presumably.]

****[William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Macbeth': Act III, Scene IV.]

#{(so far as a statement can!)}

[continues]

[PostedBlogger28042016]