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Frank I 547
Knowledge/Evans: it is not sufficient that a true belief is causally dependent on the facts that make it true. - ((s) Additional identification is needed.)
Evans: remembering is therefore no way to have knowledge of a subject such that the question of the identity of that object remains open.
Therefore there is no gap between the knowledge that someone saw a burning tree and the knowledge that it was the person herself who saw it. >Self-identification, >Self-knowledge.


Gareth Evans(1982): Self-Identification, in: G.Evans The Varieties of Reference, ed. by John McDowell,
Oxford/NewYork 1982, 204-266

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