@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Dretske,Fred}, subject = {Knowledge}, note = {Cresswell II 163 Knowledge/Dretske/Cresswell: (Dretske 1983)(1) very strong thesis: What we know and are able to do, is limited by what we can differentiate. (Distinguishing ability limits possible knowledge). Cresswell: but that is compatible with my theses. Dretske: For example: Suppose, dolphins can recognize cylinders as shapes. By chance, they only saw plastic cylinders. Or perhaps all cylindrical objects are made of plastic coincidentally. This would not show that the dolphin has acquired the term "plastic". Dretske: (p. 17): but this applies only to simple concepts, not to composite concepts. Cresswell: that's surprising! 1. Fred Dretske 1983. Knowledge and the Flow of Information. cambridge: MIT Press }, note = { Dretske I Fred Dretske "Minimal Rationality", in: S. L. Hurley and M. Nudds (Eds.) Rational Animals?, Oxford 2005 In Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005 Dretske II F. Dretske Naturalizing the Mind Cambridge 1997 Cr I M. J. Cresswell Semantical Essays (Possible worlds and their rivals) Dordrecht Boston 1988 Cr II M. J. Cresswell Structured Meanings Cambridge Mass. 1984 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=376018} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=376018} }