PHLB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Coronavirus, Illdisposed, Cultural Cognition
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Part 1: elizabeth anderson democracy, public policy, and lay. Locke thought that one can gain knowledge via perception but not via testimony, b/c while perception allows you to feel very certain about something testimony doesn"t allow the hearer to feel this way. Rather, we inherently feel that testimony is subject to all sorts of problems and thus, we tend to lack certainty when people tell us things which, according to. Nagel has pointed out that the unreliability of testimony" is flawed b/c testimony is just as true as perception or memory. Moreover, locke"s view of knowledge stating the importance of a condition of certainty seems itself/is also flawed. Even though we don"t have knowledge from testimony, we can still be more or less doubtful of it. This is the idea that we"ve seen in lockes list of attributes. The idea that an individuals" testimony must be vetted by the listener.
