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John Cook Wilson on the indefinability of knowledge
Author(s) -
Longworth Guy,
Wimmer Simon
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/ejop.12765
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , connection (principal bundle) , power (physics) , philosophy , cognitive science , psychology , mathematics , physics , medicine , geometry , quantum mechanics
Can knowledge be defined? We expound an argument of John Cook Wilson's that it cannot. Cook Wilson's argument connects knowing with having the power to inquire. We suggest that if he is right about that connection, then knowledge is, indeed, indefinable.