What's "knowledge"?

What is acquaintance knowledge?

• Knowing "of" someone or a place.

• Knowing that a claim is true or false.

• Knowing how to do something.

What is ability knowledge?

• Knowing "of" someone or a place.

• Knowing that a claim is true or false.

• Knowing how to do something.

What is propositional knowledge?

• Knowing "of" someone or a place.

• Knowing that a claim is true or false.

• Knowing how to do something.

Who said knowledge is "cognitive contact with reality"?

• Zagzebski

• Gettier

• Russell

• Locke

What's a "lemma"?

• A false claim made part way through an argument.

• A consequent that contradicts an antecedent.

• A claim made part way through an argument.

• A claim that is proven to be false.

Which of these represents the tripartite definition of knowledge?

• RTB

• JTB

• VTB

What two reasons might be given for saying justification is a necessary condition of knowledge?

• It avoids the possibility of knowledge coming from luck.

• It avoids the possibility of having to say we know nothing.

• It avoids the possibility of knowledge being based on belief.

• It avoids the possibility of knowledge as the result of irrationality.

Which one of these is an objection to Zagzebski's VTB?

• Motive has no bearing on gaining knowledge.

• The reliability of processes used in attempts to gain knowledge doesn't guarantee that knowledge is gained.

• It means that there would be very few occasions when it could be said that knowledge has ben gained.

What are "Gettier cases"?

• Examples of truth arising from a false belief.

• Examples of propositions that are true because the person making the assertion can't be mistaken.

• Examples of justified true belief without knowledge.

Which of these seems to exclude children from being able to gain propositional knowledge?

• Reliabilism

• The tripartite definition

• Virtue epistemology