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Do you know that after I've finished this cue, Nigel will begin an interview

or do you just believe it? We go through life

drawing what feels like natural distinctions between knowing something and merely

say suspecting it. I know that Jennifer Nagel is an expert on our intuitions about knowledge.

Jennifer Nagel, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Such a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me.

The topic we're going to focus on is intuitions about knowledge.

Could you give an example of what an intuition about knowledge is?

Right now, I know that you're aware that we're speaking to each other. I know that you're looking at me.

And that's something that I'm doing naturally. I'm detecting a state of knowledge in you just by looking at you,

just by being aware of which way you're facing.

This is actually a very ordinary part of human social existence.

We walk around detecting what other people know, what they think, what they want, what they believe.

When we interact as human beings,

we're not just seeing each other as moving limbs.

We're seeing each other as having mental states

as having these inner conditions

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