Truth Tracking

Question 1

What is the tripartite view of knowledge?

Answer 1

The view that knowledge is justified true belief.

Question 2

What are Gettier Cases?

Answer 2

Cases in which a subject holds a justified true belief but does not have knowledge.

Question 3

What are false lemmas.

Answer 3

False beliefs that are used to form other beliefs.

Question 4

What are the four conditions for knowledge proposed by Nozick?

Answer 4

S knows that p iff:

1. p is true
2. S believes p
3. if p weren’t true, S wouldn’t believe p
4. when p is true, S believes p

Question 5

What is reliabilism?

Answer 5

The idea that knowledge must be formed in a reliable way, one that makes it likely to be true.

Question 6

What is closure under known implication?

Answer 6

The principle that says:

• if you know that p
• if you know that p entails q
• then you know that q

Question 7

What are Mercier’s conditions for a criterion of truth?

Answer 7

A criterion of truth should be:

• Internal (available to conscious reflection)
• Objective (not just a subjective feeling)
• Immediate (directly applicable to beliefs)

Question 8

What is externalism?

Answer 8

The idea that knowledge can be based in states of affairs that the knower is unaware of.

Question 9

What is safety?

Answer 9

A replacement for Nozick’s third condition proposed by Sosa. It says:
When S believes p, p is true
On this analysis, you do know that you are not a brain in a vat.