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Mr. O'Connor said no one interviewed expressed first-person knowledge of an astronaut's drinking heavily or being drunk before a flight.
Have you ever had first-person knowledge of, and then read traditional journalists' coverage of, a situation or topic?
(See too Bach 2005, 73 4, who also suggests that DeRose's argument rests too heavily on first-person knowledge claims).
He held that each of us possesses special "first-person" knowledge, knowledge not available to anyone else.
When faced with interpreting others' behavior we quickly run into the limits of first-person knowledge simpliciter.
This perspective provides the alternative to opposing perspectives especially when our first-person knowledge or third-person theories get it wrong.
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First-person vs. third-person knowledge.
A self-blind creature could still gain "third person" knowledge of the mental states in question, through observing her own behavior, reading textbooks, and the like.
Such second-person knowledge calls the implicit masculinity of knowers into question, since getting to know others typically requires intimacy, dialogue, empathy and other characteristics that are gender symbolized as "feminine".
Habermas and other Critical Theorists rightly call "technocratic" any social inquiry that only develops optimal problem-solving strategies in light of purely third-person knowledge of the impersonal consequences of all available courses of action.
Bengson and Moffett (2012a) offer us a third way to explain the difference between Leslie's third-person knowledge that some heretofore untried way to ride a bike is a way for her to ride a bike, and the knowledge she has after she learns how to ride a bike.
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