First-person knowledge is constitutively tied to a particular perspective; Nagel and Castañeda argue no perspective-neutral proposition can fully capture 'what it is like' to be a specific subject.
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(used to distinguish between how the parent sees the situation versus how the child might see it)
A particular way of looking at or thinking about something based on your own position, experiences, and concerns.
Perspective-neutral proposition(the kind of statement the philosophers claim cannot capture subjective experience)
A statement that tries to describe something in a completely objective way, without any connection to a particular person's point of view.
What it is like(the key phrase emphasizing personal, first-person experience that resists objective description)
The subjective, felt quality of an experience—what something is actually like from the inside when you experience it yourself (also called the 'subjective character' of experience).
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
subject(Logical/grammatical ontology in Eisagoge)
Either a sound signifying a meaning or a meaning signified by a certain sound