Re: [Fis] Definition of Knowledge?

2009-10-02 Thread ssalthe
Pedro -- OK Stan, but can you apply those propositional (human) modifications also to bacteria, fish, (human) enterprise or institution, society otherwise I am affraid you move only in the anthropocentric realm. best ---Pedro We can certainly note that 'knowing that' is a linguistic

Re: [Fis] Definition of Knowledge?

2009-10-02 Thread Jacob Lee
Philosophical discussion of 'knowledge' is long and deep, of course; one can check with the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for a review of the literature. Fred Dretske brought the discussion into the realm of semantic information theory. The classic text is: Dretske, Fred. 1981,