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Unger's Analysis of Knowledge |
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Rose Bush
(0) p is knowlege if and only if it is not accedental that p is true
(1) S knows p (iff) it is not accidental that S is right about p
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Believes/ Idubitable / Justified
If S believes p and p is indubitable for S the S's beliefe that p is justified
Defining
Contextual meaning |
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'Meaning's are not just in the head'
Twin Earth (XYZ) and Earth (H20) |
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Putnam's Anti-Sketical Argument |
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BiV
Our relationship to the world cannot be different than our bestconception of it
McIntyre: Disagrees (Putnum does not prove we are not BiVs) |
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Unger's Skeptical Argument |
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Flatness Hardly/ Skeptical/ Certainty
1. There is hardly anything that we know
2. S knows p only if S is certain that p
3. There is hardly anything that we know
Flatness: There is always something flatter
Lewis: Supports (Context must be consiered- Raised Standards)
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Nozick's Analysis of Knowledge |
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Truth
1. p is true
2. S believes that p
3. If p weren't true S wouldn't believe that p
4.If p then S believes that p
Barn facade: Condition 3
Dictaor Condition 4 |
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McFarlane "Context Sensitive Terms"
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Truth Conditionals 'to know' and Contect Sensitive Terms 'here'
Contect of question changes
Context Sensitive termonology |
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