From a thread in The Other Place:
“Suddenly I had to think of him.” Say a picture of him suddenly floated before me. Did I know it was a picture of him, N.? I did not tell myself it was. What did its being of him consist in, then? Perhaps what I later said or did.
(Zettel, 14)
If to know is to hold a justified true belief, then what is the justification here? I know it is a picture of him because I recognise it as such? But that is to say just that I know it is a picture of him because I know it is a picture of him…
And if there is no justification, then do we not know that it is a picture of him?
Now apply this to taking a shit. Can one properly be said to know one needs to shit? What is the justification here?
In my ubiquitous puppy-kicking for fun example, what is the justification for seeing the act as cruel?
Rather, we recognise that it is a picture of him; One recognises that one needs the loo; and one recognises that the puppy-kicking for fun is cruel.
This by way of a partial return to the lost theme in Furthering Philippa Foot.