What is Knowledge

Question 1

What is ability knowledge?

Answer 1

-Is knowing how to do something, for example how to ride a bike.

Question 2

What is acquaintance knowledge?

Answer 2

• This is knowledge that involves direct contact with something in experience, e.g. a person, a place, or one’s own thoughts and feelings
• E.g. I know oxford, I know my friend, and I know what I’m thinking.

Question 3

What is propositional knowledge?

Answer 3

• Knowledge about some part of reality, which I may or may not have experienced myself. It is knowledge that some proposition is true or false.
• To be in contact with reality, what we know must be a true proposition; not a false one.

Question 4

What does scepticism mean?

Answer 4

-The view that our usual justifications for claiming our beliefs amount to knowledge are inadequate, so we do not in fact have knowledge.

Question 5

What does analytic mean?

Answer 5

-Something is true by definition e.g. a triangle has 3 sides.