1
Q
What is ability knowledge?
A
-Is knowing how to do something, for example how to ride a bike.
2
Q
What is acquaintance knowledge?
A
- 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.
3
Q
What is propositional knowledge?
A
- 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.
4
Q
What does scepticism mean?
A
-The view that our usual justifications for claiming our beliefs amount to knowledge are inadequate, so we do not in fact have knowledge.
5
Q
What does analytic mean?
A
-Something is true by definition e.g. a triangle has 3 sides.
