@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Nozick,Robert}, subject = {Consciousness}, note = {II 245 Knowledge/Consciousness/Nozick: most authors: Thesis: you always know that you know. Cf. >Beliefs/Davidson, >Reference. NozickVs: it may be that you know something, but do not believe that you know it, because you do not believe that you fulfill conditions (3) and (4). (3) If p were not true, S would not believe p. (4) If p >S believes that p. Problem: if you are connected to a fact, but not with the fact that you are in connection with this fact. - It may be that the belief varies with the truth, but not with the fact that you really are in connection with it. >Truth, >Facts, >Belief, >Knowledge. 2nd order skepticism 2nd stage: that you do not know that you know something. >Skepticism. NozickVsSkepticism: only if the vat world were the next possible world, could skepticism show that a particular conditional relation does not exist, i.e. if the vat world had to exist as soon as we believed something wrong. >Brains in a vat, >Similar World, >Possible Worlds, >Similarity Metrics. Nozick: and that is not the case. II 247 Knowing that you know/Nozick: you often do not know exactly at what level you are. - E.g. if you know that you are on the 3rd level, you are already on the 4th level. >Description levels, >Levels/order. II 347 Consciousness/Explanation/Evolution Theory/Nozick: consciousness allows other types of behavior: namely, to letting yourself be guided by principles. >Principles, >Behavior, >Rules.}, note = { No I R. Nozick Philosophical Explanations Oxford 1981 No II R., Nozick The Nature of Rationality 1994 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=208626} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=208626} }