PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Descriptive Knowledge, Lady Gaga

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 110
• Professor: Colanter

Document Summary

Hospers analyzes the different uses of the word know and then sets forth conditions for descriptive knowledge. E. g. , do you know lady gaga? (have you met her?) E. g. , do you know how to surf? it is similar to know-how and has to do with ability. One knows how to surf just in case they have the ability to surf. Propositional sense : i know that (this is the most frequent) E. g. , i know that i am reading this to my class. There are three conditions for having knowledge in the propositional sense (where p is any proposition) 2. you must believe that p is true. 3. and you must have evidence/reason for p. (this is to avoid the lucky guess ) In other words, to have knowledge of the proposition p, p must be true (objectively); that person must believe p (subjectively), and that person must have evidence and/or reason for p (to avoid the lucky guess ).