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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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D. Hume on Knowledge - Dictionary of Arguments

Stroud I 105f
Knowledge/proof of existence/existence/Hume/Stroud: there are two principles:
1. No one knows of the existence of something when it is not perceived directly by someone > Apprehension: is unordered or the person knows what he/she has perceived directly, is a sign of the existence of this thing.
2. No one can know that a thing is a sign of something else, if he/she has not perceived these two things (thing and sign) directly.
MooreVsHume: both principles are wrong: e.g. I know that this pencil exists. According to Hume I could not know that, so they are wrong. This is a reductio ad absurdum.
StroudVsMoore: Hume's principles are valid.
>Principles/Hume.
Moore: for him it is relevant what is safe, the pencil or the principles.
Skepticism/Stroud/(s): but skepticism is not a question of certainty.


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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.
D. Hume
I Gilles Delueze David Hume, Frankfurt 1997 (Frankreich 1953,1988)
II Norbert Hoerster Hume: Existenz und Eigenschaften Gottes aus Speck(Hg) Grundprobleme der großen Philosophen der Neuzeit I Göttingen, 1997
Stroud I
B. Stroud
The Significance of philosophical scepticism Oxford 1984


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