PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Descriptive Knowledge, Empiricism
13 Jul 2015
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Epistemology is primarily concerned with propositional knowledge, what it is to know that p (where p is some statement or proposition) propositions have truth values, and are the objects of propositional knowledge. Example of propositional knowledge: i know that britch columbia is in canada ; i know that the sun will rise tomorrow. Skepticism: this is the view that we do not have any knowledge at all (pyhrronian skepticism) or that the only thing the we know is the we know nothing (academic skepticism). All of our claim to knowledge about the external world or the contents of our own minds are mistaken. Although it may be our initial temptation to discuss skepticism, investigating the skepticism challenge enables us to better understand of the nature knowledge. To claim to know some proposition p is to claim t process a truth.
