Philosophy 1230A/B Lecture 18: Lecture 18
25 Dec 2016
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Audio recording started: 9:33 am tuesday, october 25, 2016. Perceptions: 5 senses, etc. give us knowledge about the world. Personal experience: an amalgamation of various sensory experiences. Ex. tour ottawa for 1 week, get various sensory experiences that make up our personal experience. Memory: we can store that information, for later use. Testimony: allows us to transmit our knowledge, acquired through perception and reason, retained through memory. Allows us to get the knowledge of other people. Jon thinks no pathway to knowledge is more important than testimony. Many of us have never seen things or done things that we know about. Testimony: parents told you, government will tell you. Agrees that much of our knowledge comes from testimony. Almost all of our abiding (non fleeting) information about the world is mediated through other people"s assertions (testimony) Herrick"s answer: information we receive from other people. Not all testimony is information we receive (often reject testimony)
