PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Belief, Descriptive Knowledge, Internalism And Externalism
29 Sep 2017
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Since the scope of knowledge is so broad, we need a general characterization of knowledge, one which is applicable to any kind of proposition whatsoever. Epistemologists have usually undertaken this task by seeking a correct and complete analysis of the concept of knowledge, in other words a set of individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions which determine whether someone knows something . Necessary conditions - tell us what is true of all cases of knowledge. Sufficient conditions - tell us what is true only for cases of knowledge. If we had necessary & sufficient conditions, then knowing whether some psychological state met those conditions would tell us whether it is a state of knowledge. If doesn"t meet one/more of conditions, it is not. True of all & only things of that type. Not hard to disprove supposed necessary sufficient conditions.
