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Rorty I 242/43
Introspection/Sellars/Rorty: theory of immediate knowledge: introspection is an acquired skill, but it can then turn out that the subjects exactly recognize in themselves what the experimenter wants.
That we can teach others to recognize thoughts, nostalgia, blood pressure or alpha rhythms in themselves, is simply a function of the use of compounds within the organism as scientific instruments. Training does not guarantee that nothing treacherous is underway.
>Self-knowledge, >Self-identification, >Priviledged access, >First Person, >Incorrigibility.
Rorty I 269
Sellars: Myth of the given: at the introspection there is no presence of non-physical entities in front of a non-physical observer. However, this also averts the loss of "scientific objectivity".
>Myth of the given, >Objectivity.

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