Although interpretivists are right to give inner speech a central role in generating selfknowledge, they mischaracterize the precise nature of this role. Inner speech is
fundamentally an action, a form of speech, and provides us with self-knowledge not
by being something that we perceive (or “quasi-perceive”) and interpret, but by ...
Although interpretivists are right to give inner speech a central role in generating selfknowledge, they mischaracterize the precise nature of this role. Inner speech is
fundamentally an action, a form of speech, and provides us with self-knowledge not
by being something that we perceive (or “quasi-perceive”) and interpret, but by being
something that we knowingly do. Once this is appreciated, interpretivism is
undermined.