Suppose that I know that this is a pig. According to Austin, do I have to have evidence for thinking that it's a pig?
Suppose that I know that this is a pig. According to Austin, do I have to have evidence for thinking that it's a pig?
You might just see that it's a pig.
But don't we then have "the evidence of our senses"? Austin says that this is a metaphor, and that in a literal sense we don't have any evidence.
Austin says that we'd speak of "evidence" for the existence of the pig in cases where the pig isn't actually in view but we notice things like pig footprints, or pig smells, or remains of pig food -- things that point to the existence of a pig.
Suppose that I know that this is a pig. According to Austin, do I have to have evidence for thinking that it's a pig?
You might just see that it's a pig.
But don't we then have "the evidence of our senses"? Austin says that this is a metaphor, and that in a literal sense we don't have any evidence.
Austin says that we'd speak of "evidence" for the existence of the pig in cases where the pig isn't actually in view but we notice things like pig footprints, or pig smells, or remains of pig food -- things that point to the existence of a pig.