
104th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Marie McGinn on Non-Inferential Knowledge
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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The Development of the Capacity for Straight Off Observational Judgments
A mature human being has mastered a conceptual repertoire that goes way beyond observational concepts. A self-conscious judge grasps that the exercise of his capacity for making observational judgements depends upon certain conditions being met. If he has reasons to believe that these conditions are not met, then he knows that he must refrain from making straight off observational judgements which in normal conditions he understands himself to be entitled to make authoritively.
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