However, unknown to him, I suffer chronically from Smith's Disease, attacks of which are not obvious to another party; these attacks involve, among other things perhaps, the peculiarity that at the time red things look some quite different colour to me.
I know
that I have this disease, and I am having (and know that I am having) an attack at the moment.
In these circumstances I say,
"That pillar-box looks red to me". I would suggest that here the D-or-D condition is not fulfilled; my companion would receive my remark with just that mixture of puzzlement and scorn which would please my objector; and yet when he learnt about my attack of Smith's Disease, he would certainly think that what I had said had been false.


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