Feeling one's own hunger or thirst is a form of inner awareness. A corresponding first-person judgment may be grounded directly in that sensation.
But my own thirst cannot establish that another person must be thirsty; additional evidence or reliable testimony would be needed.
Similarly, seeing smoke and concluding that fire exists adds an inference based on a relationship. The sensory datum and an inference drawn from that datum are not identical.
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Demonstration and the Six Kinds of Certain Premises
Feeling one's own hunger or thirst is a form of inner awareness. A corresponding first-person judgment may be grounded directly in that sensation.
But my own thirst cannot establish that another person must be thirsty; additional evidence or reliable testimony would be needed.
Similarly, seeing smoke and concluding that fire exists adds an inference based on a relationship. The sensory datum and an inference drawn from that datum are not identical.