A Formal Representation of Doubts and Feelings

Abstract

Consider an individual

$${A_1} = {a^{{a^{\bar b}}}} + b.$$

(6.1)

A _l sees his partner B ₂=b; in addition, A ₁ sees himself seeing ${B_3} = \bar b.$ Thus, the partner exists in A _l’ s inner world in two roles: as ‘reality’ (B ₂) and as an image or a model of this reality (B ₃). A ₁, can see that his image B ₃ differs from the ‘reality’ B ₂. In this structure the individual can say, ‘I am mistaken’. Of course, the structure itself does not display modality; we cannot fix the formal differences between situations where an individual ‘is sure’ that he is mistaken and ‘supposes’ that he is mistaken.