PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Descriptive Knowledge
8 Dec 2014
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We think we know many things: mcmaster university is in canada, my name is rachel, food is good. Different kinds of knowledge: we think we know many facts (propositional knowledge) Focus of this class: we think we know how to do many things (ability knowledge, we think we know many people and places; acquainted with them (familiarity) Most philosophers agree we have propositional knowledge of only things that: are true. We can have false beliefs that are therefore untrue: we believe are true. Can have conflicting feelings (emotional vs. practical) Bizarre to claim one knows what is false: e. g. It also seems that in order to know something is true, one must at the very least believe that it is true. Knowledge is not the same as true belief since beliefs can be true by chance/luck: a superstitious person might decide what to believe by flipping a coin/rolling a die.
