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TRÊS CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE AUTOCONHECIMENTO E A TRANSPARÊNCIA DO MENTAL

2010; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5216/phi.v14i2.6715

1982-2928

Waldomiro Silva Filho,

Information Science and Libraries

This essay presents the following three brief considerations on self-knowledge and transparency: a) transparency of the mental content is a characteristic trait of self-knowledge; b) the epistemological treatment of transparency of content has obscured the notion of self-knowledge and the space this notions takes in the image we have of a person and human action, and; c) when I say to have a belief, transparency is not a logical or epistemic trait of the first-person speech, but more so an expression of the attitudes for which I am responsible. With this, I intend to suggest that self-knowledge is not knowledge (which can be theoretically justified and guaranteed), but a characteristic of the position of the first-person in relation with thoughts, beliefs, etc. In this sense, I suggest that, parting from the idea of deliberation, an interesting path to discuss the notion of self-knowledge is to investigate every-day communicative experience.