PHIL 100W Lecture : phil 100 lec 15 + 16 notes
12 Feb 2012
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Philosophy 100 is called knowledge and reality. This title highlights two main nonexclusive branches of philosophy; epistemology and metaphysics. Questions of metaphysics are ones concerning the ultimate nature of lecture 15 reality. Questions of epistemology are ones dealing with the nature and source(s) of. There are several different senses of knowledge or of knowing. Examples: s knows the president of sfu personally. ---knowledge in the sense of acquaintance: s knows how to ride a bicycle. Neither of these senses will concern us: s knows that p ( where p is any proposition or statement). The following appear to be necessary conditions: the truth condition: S believes that p: the justification (or evidence) condition: S has adequate justification (or evidence) for believing that p. Skepticism is the view that no one knows anything (about the external world, at least). Naive realism: there exists a world of physical objects (trees, buildings, mountains, etc)
