Obviously, this doesn’t prevent me from saying that I know something without an argument.
You can say that you are the Queen of Sheba.
It remains the case that knowledge is not lucky guessing, so an argument, evidence or some other justification is required.
Yes, but this is completely and totally irrelevant to the point I was making, that:
I will profess that a statement, X, is true, if and only if “X” is encoded in a certain manner in my brain.
Yet “X is true” does not mean “X is encoded in this manner in my brain.”
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Obviously, this doesn’t prevent me from saying that I know something without an argument.
You can say that you are the Queen of Sheba.
It remains the case that knowledge is not lucky guessing, so an argument, evidence or some other justification is required.
Yes, but this is completely and totally irrelevant to the point I was making, that:
I will profess that a statement, X, is true, if and only if “X” is encoded in a certain manner in my brain.
Yet “X is true” does not mean “X is encoded in this manner in my brain.”