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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

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