PHIL 2500 Lecture Notes - Feminist Epistemology, Descriptive Knowledge, Necessity And Sufficiency
22 Apr 2013
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Male paradigms vs. female qualities, divide between maleness and femaleness. What are necessary conditions?-needed meeting a requirement- must be satisfied for a statement to be true. if x is needed for y then if we don"t have x we don"t have y. Oxygen is a necessary condition for human life. If we don"t have oxygen we don"t have human life. X guarantees y. if you get 89% you get a a. You could get 85 or whatever, but 89 would be an a. We can know other people- we know the lecturer, he brother also knows her. S- subject who knows p-proposition that is known. Substitution assumptions (a key aspect of propositional knowledge) Example sally knows that the cup is white. S can be substituted by s (s can be substituted for any other subject who knows) And p can be substituted for any other subject who knows.
