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Drawing on insights of Wang Yangming 王陽明, Yong Huang proposes an account of a phenomenon that has in recent times suffered neglect. This neglect has been relieved only by the idea of a “besire,” a mental attitude that combines features of both beliefs and desires. I accept the insightfully discerned phenomenon, but offer a different account of its nature and importance. The phenomenon is real, though, and different from the familiar phenomena of knowledge that and knowledge how.
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Huang, Yong. 2022. “A Third Platonic Problem for Sosa?” In Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy, edited by Yong Huang. London: Bloomsbury.
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Sosa, E. On “Knowledge To” and Wang Yangming. Dao 22, 187–192 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-023-09877-9
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