I would think that the better analogy would be “Well, I know that I sometimes tell the truth, but so far as I can ever know, the utterances of other people bear no special relationship to the truth”. I find it to be a better analogy because, in this view, we could try to introduce “philosophical liars”: people who appear to be truthful in every way, but are merely putting up facades, with no inherent truth-connection behind their words.
I would think that the better analogy would be “Well, I know that I sometimes tell the truth, but so far as I can ever know, the utterances of other people bear no special relationship to the truth”. I find it to be a better analogy because, in this view, we could try to introduce “philosophical liars”: people who appear to be truthful in every way, but are merely putting up facades, with no inherent truth-connection behind their words.