104th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Marie McGinn on Non-Inferential Knowledge
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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The Account of Observational Judgments
Our ability to describe what we see has its roots in our natural propensity for spontaneous meaningful engagement with the objects and events occurring in our environment. When we learn to say what something is or to describe what is there to be seen, justification and doubt are not in the picture. In the case of self-conscious bodily awareness our development of these abilities have its roots in more primitive forms of self-awareness which predate conceptual abilities. Acquiring the relevant conceptual capacities means learning to say spontaneously not on the basis of observation but without guidance from others.
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