what is knowledge

Question 1

aquaintance knowledge

Answer 1

involves direct
contact with something in experience, e.g. a person, a place or one’s own
thoughts and feelings

Question 2

ability knowledge

Answer 2

knowing how to do something eg. how to ride a bike

Question 3

propositional knowledge

Answer 3

knowledge about some part of
reality, which I may or may not have experienced myself. knowledge that
some claim – a proposition – is true or false. e.g. ‘eagles are birds’

Question 4

zagzebski quote on aquaintaine and propositional knowledge

Answer 4

involves being ‘in cognitive contact with reality’

Question 5

zagzebski’s practical purpose of definition

Answer 5

when we seek to define knowledge in
order to recognise instances of knowledge and learn more about
how to get knowledge with the aim of achieving knowledge. they explain concepts in terms of concepts

Question 6

zagzebski’s theoretical purpose of definition

Answer 6

when we want to understand the concept of
knowledge and how it relates to other, related concepts, such as
truth, evidence etc. with the aim to find a more precise (real) definition that tells us exactly
what knowledge is. real definitions try to describe the nature of what we define

Question 7

necessary and sufficient conditions

Answer 7

eg. unmarried man is a bachelor. ‘unmarried’ and ‘man’ are necessary as ‘a man is a bachelor’ is incorrect and ‘an unmarried person is a bachelor’ is also incorrect as it could be a woman. together, they are sufficient for the definition of a bachelor

Question 8

zagzebski’s opinion on defining propositional knowledge

Answer 8

suggests that we should adopt the aim of providing
a real definition of knowledge at least until we can show that we
have failed to find one. The only way we will know that we cannot
give necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge is by trying
and failing to succeed