PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Solidity, Synesthesia, Tabula Rasa
11 Oct 2017
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It is the study of knowledge and things related to knowledge (justification,rationality,etc) Epistemic claims: a claim that a person has reason to believe, that is justified. Normative statement: tries to give an evaluation of something. Has standards to make out of something, weather it is good or bad, right or wrong or even true or false. Skeptics: philosophers who claim that we do not know most things that we might think we know. ex: we assume we know that physical things exist (shape,mass,colour). They also say we can never know anything about the future. Knowledge has to be backed up by reasons and evidence. If a person ( s ) is to know a proposition ( p ) S-must be justified in believing that p is true. ( possess evidence that makes it highly probable that p is true) 1543(introduction to the helio-centric model) -1687(isaac newton and his theory of gravity and laws of motion)
