Explaining transparency the simple way

If one asks oneself whether to believe that p from the first-person perspective, one understands this question is answered in, and only in, answering a second question – whether p . I propose a straightforward new explanation of such ‘transparency’: it is because one understands believing something is thinking it is true. This ‘Simple Explanation’ was overlooked due to the notion in the early literature (Shah, 2003; Shah & Velleman, 2005) that ‘thinking it is true that p ’ does not uniquely identify belief. I argue that this is false and hence that we can explain transparency the simple way.