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Knowledge: Knowledge is the awareness or understanding of something. It can be acquired through experience, or education. Knowledge can be factual, procedural, or conceptual. See also Propositional knowledge, Knowledge how._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Paul Benacerraf on Knowledge - Dictionary of Arguments
Stalnaker I 41 Knowledge/Causal Theory/Mathematics/Benacerraf/Stalnaker: for mathematics we should expect a semantics that is a continuation of the general semantics. >Semantics, >Causal theory of knowledge. Existence statements about numbers, functions, and sets should be interpreted with the same truth-conditional semantics as sentences about tables, quarks, etc. >Existence statements, >Truth Conditions, >Numbers, >Sets, >Functions, >Mathematical Entities. Stalnaker I 42 Platonism/Mathematics/Benacerraf: Platonism gives a natural semantics, but it does not allow plausible epistemology. >Platonism, >Theory of knowledge. Reference/Benacerraf: thesis: real reference needs a causal connection. >Reference, >Causality, >Causal relation._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Bena I P. Benacerraf Philosophy of Mathematics 2ed: Selected Readings Cambridge 1984 Stalnaker I R. Stalnaker Ways a World may be Oxford New York 2003 |