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Single Idea 17723
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification
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Full Idea
I propose that knowledge is true belief which can be well explained .....just by citing the proposition believed.
Gist of Idea
Knowledge is true belief which can be explained just by citing the proposition believed
Source
Carrie Jenkins (Grounding Concepts [2008], 3.1)
Book Ref
Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.74
A Reaction
I don't find this appealing, and my reservation about Jenkins's book is her reliabilist, externalist epistemology. I would add an internalist coherentist epistemology to her very nice theory. 'I believe there are fairies at the bottom of my garden'?
The
17 ideas
from Carrie Jenkins
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17719
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Arithmetic concepts are indispensable because they accurately map the world
[Jenkins]
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17718
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Grounded concepts are trustworthy maps of the world
[Jenkins]
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17717
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Senses produce concepts that map the world, and arithmetic is known through these concepts
[Jenkins]
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17720
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There's essential, modal, explanatory, conceptual, metaphysical and constitutive dependence
[Jenkins, by PG]
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17723
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Knowledge is true belief which can be explained just by citing the proposition believed
[Jenkins]
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17725
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'Analytic' can be conceptual, or by meaning, or predicate inclusion, or definition...
[Jenkins]
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17724
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It is not easy to show that Hume's Principle is analytic or definitive in the required sense
[Jenkins]
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17727
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We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts
[Jenkins]
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17726
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Examining accurate, justified or grounded concepts brings understanding of the world
[Jenkins]
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17728
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The concepts we have to use for categorising are ones which map the real world well
[Jenkins]
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17729
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Examining concepts can recover information obtained through the senses
[Jenkins]
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17730
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Combining the concepts of negation and finiteness gives the concept of infinity
[Jenkins]
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17731
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Verificationism is better if it says meaningfulness needs concepts grounded in the senses
[Jenkins]
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17732
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Success semantics explains representation in terms of success in action
[Jenkins]
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17734
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It is not enough that intuition be reliable - we need to know why it is reliable
[Jenkins]
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17739
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The physical effect of world on brain explains the concepts we possess
[Jenkins]
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17740
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Instead of correspondence of proposition to fact, look at correspondence of its parts
[Jenkins]
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