OBSTACLES TO A DIRECT SOLUTION THROUGH A DIRECT ACCESS TO CONSCIOUSNESS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5840/eps202461220Keywords:
meaning, introspection, skepticism about meaning, Kripke, direct solution to the Kripke problem, direct access, platonism, speech actAbstract
The article shows that Borisov’s direct solution to the problem of skepticism about meaning using a special type of introspection is associated with the assumption of the agent’s direct access to their own consciousness. This assumption has two complicating consequences: the analogy with Moore’s paradox and the Platonic concept of meaning. It is also shown that direct access to meaning as a way of Borisov’s direct solution of the skeptical paradox significantly uses the performativity of the speech act, narrowing the scope of analysis of the original problem. The little-studied problem of distinction in the analysis of the skeptical paradox of meaningful and formalized mathematics is noted.
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