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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.
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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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Thompson Clarke on Knowledge - Dictionary of Arguments

Stroud I 67
Knowledge/Assertibility/Truth/Thompson Clarke/Stroud: Example: Soldiers in war are to distinguish foreign airplanes from their own under time pressure, on the basis of characteristics: If an aircraft has x, y, and w it is an E, - if it has x, y, and z: an F.
Only specially trained observers can distinguish between E and F on the ground by means of a further characteristic.
Skepticism: Skepticism corresponds to observation from the ground. - It does not provide real knowledge, but assertibility.
>Assertibility
, >Truth.
Instead of dream: we do not always know when we think we know.
>Beliefs, >Certainty.
Solution/Stroud: philosophy merely applies higher standards.
StroudVsAustin: but here there are not two notions of knowledge.
"Distant position": from it we can see our own limitation.
I 80
Airplane example: Here there is no objective knowledge (as long as the airplane is not on the ground), but knowledge relative to the manual. - Pointe: if the manual is not correct, he himself will say that he has no knowledge. - And it is not completely correct.
>Correctness.

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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.

Stroud I
B. Stroud
The Significance of philosophical scepticism Oxford 1984


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