PHI 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nomic, Chinese Room, Thermometer
13 Dec 2013
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They have knowledge, but they can make false assumptions. Moderates (armstrong) nik of some perceived objects. So correspondence central to model: accidents ruled out by reliability therm must work all the time. Imagine i"m inside a box and i"ve been given a manual to feed into a slot. Input, check manual, tells you what output to use. I can administer this program communicate with a chinese speaker without knowledge of chinese. Point implementing the program does not mean you know. Analogy a computer which gives the appearance of knowing something should not be given the assumption of knowing: some questions: But what her own reasoning process is not specified. All that"s necessary is that the two subjunctive conditions hold. They eliminate luck by requiring covariance, but no requirement about internal justification, thus no requirement that s knows that s knows that p: appeal of externalism: 1. 2 eliminates complications viz internal justification (e. g. k-k)
