class notes

Academic Knowledge

Plato: Knowledge-had to be described & communicated = certainty

“Propositional” knowledge/Platonic knowledge/ knowledge by description

N Reasonable & Convincing

‘Flying pig example isn’t knowledge’

Formac statement of convincing knowledge

(Conditions for knowledge)

“Knowing that”

Test:

1. Justified

2. True

3. Belief= necessary but not sufficient.

Truth

1. Public-Dog has to be friendly to all

2. Independent-separate from belief

3. Eternal –but must be true now & forever

Empiricism/Experiential

See it

Induction

Smell

Hear

Touch

Taste

Rationalism

Instructed using a prior knowledge

‘Knowledge that came before’

Deduction

General theory =specific