Single Idea 19512

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First]

Full Idea

Williamson says that instead of being viewed as a concept to be analysed, knowledge should be seen as something useful in the analysis of all sorts of other concepts to epistemology - and to philosophy of mind as well.

Gist of Idea

Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology

Source

report of Timothy Williamson (Knowledge and its Limits [2000]) by Keith DeRose - The Case for Contextualism 1.8

Book Reference

DeRose,Keith: 'The Case for Contextualism' [OUP 2009], p.20


A Reaction

I just don't believe this, because knowledge is obviously a complex state of mind, which invites breaking it down into ingredients. How could knowledge possibly be prior to truth?