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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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Terence Horgan on Knowledge - Dictionary of Arguments

Chalmers I 141
Knowledge/HorganVsJackson/Horgan/Chalmers: (Horgan 1984)(1) E.g. The knowledge about Clark Kent and the knowledge about Superman differ intensionally.
>Intensions
, >Content, >Conceptual Content, >Inferential Content , >Objects of Belief,
>Objects of Thought, >Existence, >Non-existence, >Description levels.
Knowledge/ChurchlandVsJackson: likewise, the knowledge about temperature differs from knowledge about medium kinetic energy. (Churchland 1985)(2).
Solution/Chalmers: a posteriori the intensions coincide.

1. Terence E. Horgan (1984). Jackson on physical information and qualia. Philosophical Quarterly 34 (April):147-52.
2. Patricia Smith Churchland. (1985). From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case against Belief. Philosophical Review 94 (3):418.

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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.

Horgan I
T. Horgan
Austere Realism: Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology (Representation and Mind) Cambridge 2009

Horgan II
T. Horgan
The Epistemic Relevance of Morphological Content 2010

Cha I
D. Chalmers
The Conscious Mind Oxford New York 1996

Cha II
D. Chalmers
Constructing the World Oxford 2014


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