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| Knowledge: Knowledge is the awareness or understanding of something. It can be acquired through experience, or education. Knowledge can be factual, procedural, or conceptual. See also Propositional knowledge, Knowledge how._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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W. Poundstone on Knowledge - Dictionary of Arguments
I 184 Knowledge/Poundstone: variants on Justified True Belief: Unjustified true belief: E.g., Democritus's atoms. >Democritus. Justified false belief: E.g., most cosmologies (also Copernicus). Justified false assumption believed: People who doubt false cosmologies, i.e., the Church, which doubted Copernicus" justified but ultimately false theory. >Cosmology. I 186 Truth that is not believed for lack of justification: The philosophers who doubted Democritus. Unjustified belief that is rejected: Ex perpetual motion machine. I 187 Gettier/Poundstone: being right for the right reasons, except that those reasons don't apply. >E. Gettier, >Causal Theory of Knowledge, >Knowledge. I 208 Def Knowledge/Possible Worlds/Hintikka: "increasing knowledge is the reduction in the number of possible worlds consistent with what is known." - Ex All we know is consistent with there being life on Alpha Centauri, but also consistent with there being no life there. - Our ignorance is so great that we cannot distinguish the real world from a merely possible world. >Possible worlds, >Impossible world._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Poundstone I William Poundstone Labyrinths of Reason, NY, 1988 German Edition: Im Labyrinth des Denkens Hamburg 1995 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27