Full Idea
I am quite flexible on epistemic terminology, and am even willing to grant that a supermarket door can 'know' that someone is approaching.
Gist of Idea
It is acceptable to say a supermarket door 'knows' someone is approaching
Source
Ernest Sosa (Beyond internal Foundations to external Virtues [2003], 6.6)
Book Reference
Bonjour,L/Sosa,E: 'Epistemic Justification' [Blackwells 2003], p.115
A Reaction
I take this amazing admission to be a hallmark of externalism. Sosa must extend this to thermostats. So flowers know the sun has come out. This is knowledge without belief. Could the door ever be 'wrong'?