SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Descriptive Knowledge

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Science and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: klass kraay

Document Summary

Declarative sentences express proposition unlike imperative and interrogative. Three key ingredients in propositional knowledge: truth, belief, justification. Truth and belief without justification is not true knowledge i. e. you guess an answer on a test. Realism - (about truth in some subject areas) Involves 2 claims: there are truths in that subject area, those truths do not depend upon the anyones belief on them. Nihilism - (about truth in some subject areas) Claim - there just are no truths whatsoever in that subject area. The view that moral statements have no truth value (there are neither true or false) Saying there is no truth in anything. But you believe that your claim that there is no truth, is true. Thinks there is truth in that subject area. What the truths are depend upon what we believe them to be. What the truths are depend upon the majority (a societal belief)