knowledge Flashcards
1
Q
knowledge
A
descriptive function: doing justice to existing practices of knowledge gathering intuition about knowledge: empirical
prescriptive function: regulating the difficulty of attaining knowledge, increase or shrink the amount of knowlong
2
Q
justified true belief
A
A knows that P Iff
1. P = true
2. A believes that P
3. A is justified in believing that P
3
Q
Gettier problem
A
Cases where conditions meet JBT, but are not intuitively regarded as knowledge
false promises, but conclusions is true (Is that knowledge?)
4th truthmaker: fact used to justify the belief that P must coincide with truthmakers of P
