104th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Marie McGinn on Non-Inferential Knowledge
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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Observational Judgment, There's a Violin Before Me
There's no distinction in this case, which parallels the distinction between mere true belief and knowledge in the case for action. McDowell motivates the claim that there is a symmetry in these between the two cases by appeal to the example of Trump loyal pictures. If we take a paradigmatic observational judgment of the form, that is a violin, then said in response to the Trump-lawy painting, that observational judgment is not true,. This is not a case of observing that this is a violin - but I'm not seeing that it's a violin before me.
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