Karteikarten
Epistemology
Karten in diesem Stapel (28)
- 1What are the three main types of knowledgePractical knowledge
Knowledge by aquaintance
Prepositional knowledge - 2What is practical knowledgeKnowing how to do something , a skill or capability to perform a certain task, but need not involve having any explicit understanding of what such a performance entails
- 3What is knowledge by a quaintanceKnowing in the sense of knowing a person, place, thing, sensation or feeling
- 4What is Prepositional knowledgeKnowing that something is the case
- 5Because factual knowledge is expressed in languages ....It seems to involve holding beliefs
- 6Define beliefA thought which is about the world. It is a mental representation which claims that something is the case. Beliefs can be true or false
- 7Define propositionA proposition is what a statement says or asserts about the world. Like beliefs, propositions can be true or false
- 8Define factA fact is something that is the case in the world. Fact can not be true or false, they just are
- 9Try define truthA correspondence between a belief or proposition in the world. Sam believes the cat is on the mat - if it corresponds with the facts, then it is true
- 10What is would be a prescriptive account of knowledgeTrying to give a definition of what the concept of knowledge should be
- 11What is a descriptive account of knowledgeTrying to give a definition of what knowledge is, in its ordinary usage
- 12What are the two contradictory considerationsA) we can only know things when we are certain about them
B) we know lots of things
We are focusing on B - 13What is real essenceReal essences are the submicroscopic constitutions which cause the observable qualities of substance
- 14The two categories of definitionNatural and artificial
- 15What is a real definitionIt is the definition of an object with real essence, an object without a real essence will have an artificial definition
- 16What does zagzebski think about defining intelligence and knowledgeIt is ambiguous whether those concepts can have real definitions, but we should treat knowledge as if it does have a real essence, and so should seek a real definition
- 17What is conceptual analysisLook for the conditions/factors that must be true for an example of the concept to work
- 18What are the four pitfalls of definitionCircular
Obscure
Negative
Ad hoc - 19Overview of Plato’s menosSomeone who knows the way to larissa is just as good as quite as someone who has a true belief about the way to Larissa
- IBID evidence is the glue for true beliefs - 20Overview of Plato’s theatetusWe can hold true beliefs that we are reluctant to call knowledge because of the nature of the evidence supporting them
- 21Linda zagzebski - virtue epistemologyKnowledge is a state of true belief that arises out of act of intellectual virtue
- 22What does virtue epistemology state about knowledgeIt is a true belief brought about by a virtuous intellectual disposition k= V+T+B
- 23Who created the triple A ratingErnest sosa (1940-)
- 24Accuracyan accurate belief is a true one. Just as not all accurate shots are skilful ones, not all true beliefs are skilfully formed ( adroit )
- 25AdroitnessAn adroit belief is one that was formed on the basis of intellectual virtue ( using a reliable intellectual process)
- 26AptnessAn apt belief is a true adroit belief that is true because it is adroit
- 27Virtue epistemology and fake barnsBarneys belief is accurate, adroit and apt - sosa suggests that barney does have a form of knowledge which he terms animal knowledge
- 28What is animal and human knowledgeAnimal knowledge is the sort that animals can have too. Hum a knowledge requires the ability to reflect on your belief.
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- AS level Philosophy Karteikarten am Epistemology , erstellt von Madelaine Baines am 10/01/2021.
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