Stine Flashcards
What Stine think when someone says they know something?
You are saying that they can rule out the relative alternatives to it
According to Stine the fact that you can’t rule out the possibility that you are having a vivid dream does what?
Undermines the claim to know that you are awake but only in that context where possibilites are relevant
In the skeptical context what are you forced to say? And
You don’t know that you are awake because the dream possibility is relevant and you can’t rule it out
In an ordianary context when the dream possibility is not relevant what can you still claim to know?
You are awake and claim it truly
Contextualists aren’t trying to prove that skeptics are wrong instead they
They agree in some contexts it is true to say that we don’t know if we are awake
This is because that’s just how the word know works.
Which of the following would Gail Stine agree with?
We have different standards for knowledge in different contexts.
What is the principle that Stine calls “epistemic deductive closure”?
If you know that p, and you know that p entails q, then you know that q.
Which of the following is a point on which Dretske and Stine disagree?
Whether the principle of deductive closure is true.
What is Stine’s principle ?
epistemic deductive closure
(henceforth known as Closure)
What is the epistemic deductive closure?
A knows that p.
A knows that p entails q.
Therefore, A knows that q.
