PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Truth Condition, Fallibilism
8 Jun 2016
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The speaker must intend that the hearer from a thought: lot of room for misunderstanding. Five questions of epistemology: epistemology theory of knowledge. Given knowledge is abstract, the definition is justified true belief" with three satisfied conditions. Knowledge is valued so we pay for it. Knowledge of future depends on what happens in past and present. The definition of a concept lists necessary and sufficient conditions. A is a necessary condition of b" means that b cannot be true unless a is true. A is sufficient condition of b" means that if a is true, then b must be true. Example: s is a bachelor" if and only if. S knows that p if and only if: (three conditions needed for knowledge) If you know that p, then p is true. P can itself be a claim that something else is false. You don"t have to know that today is tuesday without knowing that today is tuesday.
