Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 107


107. We said “one cannot recognize intention as intention from the outside” – i.e. that it is not something that happens, or happens to us, but something we do. It is almost as if we said: we cannot see ourselves going to a place, because it is we who are doing the going. One does have a particular experience if one is doing the going oneself.



‘intention’ – is an explanation of action –

it is a proposal –

what ‘we do’ – is describe –

and any description is open to question – open to doubt

yes – you can say we do not stand outside ourselves – and observe ourselves –

as to ‘having a particular experience’ –

this is a description – a proposal – that we can put forward –

to explain ourselves



© greg t. charlton. 2014.