PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wren Building, Sensory Deprivation, Empirical Evidence
Document Summary
Realized that he had false beliefs, was capable of falsely believing things. Worried that even now, there"s lots of stuff that he knows that he thinks is false. Wants to find a way of weeding out non-knowledge from things you can be sure of. A principle: if there"s any doubt in something, then you don"t know it. You don"t necessarily know that you"re going to lose, even though you have a very high chance of losing. The guy who"s going to win has the same odds as you (as long as he isn"t that asshole who bought a ton of tickets) Any small doubt undermines the claim that you know it, 99. 99% chance that the wren building didn"t burn down, but we can"t necessarily know that without looking at it (for now) Also cannot know things if they are just false. Not a good idea to list all beliefs and go through them individually.
