Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 92
Knowledge/Goodman: e.g. it could be that someone asks me if I have seen the football coach among my audience. And falsely I answer to the negative. And I have even seen all of my audience.
>Seeing.
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III 105
Forgery: because my knowledge of the difference between the two images influences the relationship of the current to all future examining, it also shapes the character of my present examining.
>Forgery.
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IV 17
Empiricism asserts that knowledge depends on experience.
>">Empiricism.
GoodmanVs: that can be misleading: because the dependence is mutual: experience also depends on knowledge. Routine often goes unnoticed. Background knowledge is almost always necessary.
IV 204
Example: suppose you are rightly convinced that the top card from a well-shuffled deck is not Diamonds Two, and let us assume further that this proves to be true. Can you claim to have known it? Knowledge which is uncertain, is hardly a more fortunate idea than knowledge that is certain.
IV 212
Knowledge needs 1. truth, 2. belief and 3. hardening. Understanding does not need any of these.
>Truth, >Understanding.
IV 213
You do not know the familiar! (To the question: "How do you know what is right?").