Keywords
Introspection
Epistemology of mind.
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Abstract
This paper deals with the epistemological problem of the knowledge of the mental. How is it possible our knowledge of the phenomenal contents of other minds? The answer is to regress to old ideas, like that of the knowledge of other minds by analogy and our knowledge by introspection concerning our own minds, although setting them within a more sophisticated theoretic and critical background.
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