Truth, memory and others. Merleau-Ponty.
PEP ASKS Can you explain me the following text of Phenomeology of perception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty in special when he says "this would certainly suppress the problem of others and of the world..." because I do not see how he makes this inference? «But in reality, I would not know that I possess a true idea were I unable to link the present evidentness to the evidentness of the previous moment through memory, or were I unable to link what is evident for me to what is evident for others through the linguistic encounter – such that Spinozist self-evidence presupposes the evidentness of memory and of perception. If, on the other hand, we want to base the constitution of the past and of others on my power of recognizing the intrinsic truth of the idea, this would certainly suppress the problem of others and of the world, but only because we remain in the natural attitude that takes them as given and because we make use of the forces of naïve certainty.» CHAT GPT ANSWERS In t