Single Idea 19528

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

Full Idea

Knowing corresponds to doing, believing to trying. Just as trying is naturally understood in relation to doing, so believing is naturally understood in relation to knowing.

Gist of Idea

Knowledge is prior to believing, just as doing is prior to trying to do

Source

Timothy Williamson (Knowledge First (and reply) [2014], p.4)

Book Reference

'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Steup/Turri/Sosa [Wiley Blackwell 2014], p.4


A Reaction

An interesting analogy. You might infer that there can be no concept of 'belief' without the concept of 'knowledge', but we could say that it is 'truth' which is indispensible, and leave out knowledge entirely. Belief is to truth as trying is to doing?

Related Idea

Idea 16598 Priority was a major topic of dispute for scholastics [Pasnau]