PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Justin Verlander, Epistemology, Edmund Gettier
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These questions are especially pressing because there are arguments so-called skeptical arguments that purport to show that we know little if anything. There are at least three kinds of knowledge: factual knowledge. : i know that the los angeles dodgers won game 1 of the 2017 world. : i know justin verlander: ability knowledge. : i know how to throw a four-seam fastball. Our focus will be on factual knowledge, the kind of knowledge one has when one knows a fact. So from now on, knowledge means factual knowledge. For example, ability knowledge might not be well-named, since there are reasons for thinking that know how isn"t just a matter of having certain abilities. As gettier points out, for a very long time philosophers thought that they knew what (factual) knowledge was. They analyzed it as follows (the jtb analysis):
