What is knowledge overview quiz

Propositional knowledge is...

• Knowing of

• Knowing that

• Knowing how

• Knowing where

What examples demonstrates ability knowledge?

• I am hungry

• I know the capital of France is Paris

• I know how to ride a bike

• Dean knows the President of America

Acquaintance knowledge is...

• A direct experience or interaction with a person or an object

• A sentence that makes a claim

• Required to do a particular skill

A necessary condition is...

• Something you need in order to have the thing in question A is a necessary condition for B. Water is a necessary condition of rain.

• Having A is enough to guarantee that you have B. Having A is necessary so you must have B too.

• When you have all the conditions to define a particular thing

An example of a sufficient condition is...

• Water contains hydrogen

• A bachelor is an unmarried man

• Your a mum if you have a daughter

Zagzebski says knowledge has a real essence so it can be defined but that we should avoid what 4 pitfalls when defining it?

• Circularity, scepticism, negative, ad hoc

• Scepticism, no false lemmas, Ad hoc, negative

• Negative, Ad hoc, luck, chance

• Circularity, obscurity, negative, ad hoc

Define Plato's Tripartite definition of knowledge

• Justified, true, reliabilism

• Justified, true, no false lemmas

• Justified true belief.

• Justified, true, virtue epistemology

What is Gettier's main objection to JTB?

• That a belief can be false

• That the justification is never fulfilled, we can always ask why

• That the conditions of JTB are jointly necessary but not sufficient to define knowledge

• That the conditions of JTB are sufficient to define knowledge but not individually necessary

Smith and Jones Gettier counter example shows that your can have JTB but not knowledge because you knowledge can be based on what?

• False justification

• A lie so it is not true

• Luck or chance

Jones creates a new belief based on the strength of his first belief that Jones owns a Ford, his new belief is that Brown is in Barcelona, what type of belief do we call this?

• A conjunctive belief

• A disjunctive belief

• A connective belief

• A disconnected belief