Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Knowledge/Consciousness/Nozick: most authors: Thesis: you always know that you know.
Cf. >Beliefs/Davidson, >Reference.
NozickVs: it may be that you know something, but do not believe that you know it, because you do not believe that you fulfill conditions (3) and (4).
(3) If p were not true, S would not believe p.
(4) If p >S believes that p.
Problem: if you are connected to a fact, but not with the fact that you are in connection with this fact. - It may be that the belief varies with the truth, but not with the fact that you really are in connection with it.
>Truth, >Facts, >Belief, >Knowledge.
2nd order skepticism 2nd stage: that you do not know that you know something.
>Skepticism.
NozickVsSkepticism: only if the vat world were the next possible world, could skepticism show that a particular conditional relation does not exist, i.e. if the vat world had to exist as soon as we believed something wrong.
>Brains in a vat, >Similar World, >Possible Worlds, >Similarity Metrics.
Nozick: and that is not the case.
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Knowing that you know/Nozick: you often do not know exactly at what level you are. - E.g. if you know that you are on the 3rd level, you are already on the 4th level.
>Description levels, >Levels/order.
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Consciousness/Explanation/Evolution Theory/Nozick: consciousness allows other types of behavior: namely, to letting yourself be guided by principles.
>Principles, >Behavior, >Rules.