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Final
7
Philosophy
Undergraduate 3
12/08/2010

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Term

Unger's Analysis of Knowledge

Definition

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

 

Term

Goldman: Base Clause 1

Definition

Believes/ Idubitable / Justified

 

If S believes p and p is indubitable for S the S's beliefe that p is justified

 

Defining

Contextual meaning

Term

Putnam on Meanings

Definition

'Meaning's are not just in the head'

Twin Earth (XYZ) and Earth (H20)

Term

Putnam's Anti-Sketical Argument

Definition

BiV

Our relationship to the world cannot be different than our bestconception of it

 

McIntyre: Disagrees (Putnum does not prove we are not BiVs)

Term

Unger's Skeptical Argument

Definition

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)

 

Term

Nozick's Analysis of Knowledge

Definition

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

Term

McFarlane "Context Sensitive Terms"

 

Definition

Truth Conditionals 'to know' and Contect Sensitive Terms 'here'

 

Contect of question changes

Context Sensitive termonology

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