Saying What I Think

It is often hard to articulate a thought. Why should this be, if not that to have a thought is one thing, and to know it something else? I argue that in fact the gap between thought and its articulation is not epistemic. While it’s true that we come to know our thoughts better through articulation, it's not because the thought is already perfectly determinate despite my ignorance of it. Rather, we make the thought determinate through articulation. This connection between the determinacy of the thinker’s knowledge of their thought and the determinacy of the thought itself is a mark of thought’s fundamentally first-person character.