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Frank I 688
BurgeVsInternalism/Individualism: False development of the Cartesian argument: confusion of truth conditions with the conditions of individuation. >Cf. >Externalism.
1) Descartes asks whether our thoughts are true in counterfactual situations: they are not.
Important Point: this assumes that the thoughts are identical with the corresponding ones from the original situation.
I.e. the conditions of individuation remain constant, the truth conditions change.
Twin Earth/BurgeVs: in fact it is the other way round: the conditions of individuation change.
We know what thoughts we have in the current situation and can imagine that they are wrong. We would also know in a counterfactual situation which thoughts we would have in this situation.
But in the current situation, we do not know anything about thoughts that we would have in counterfactual situations. >Twin earth.
Therefore, cartesianism cannot support internalism. >Cartesianism.


Tyler Burge (1988a): Individualism and Self-Knowledge, in: The Journal of
Philosophy 85 (1988), 649-663

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