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The Measure of Knowledge [Note 1. Versions of this work have been presented at the ...]
Author(s) -
Treanor Nick
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2011.00854.x
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , philosophy , interpretation (philosophy) , citation , epistemology , cognitive science , psychology , computer science , linguistics , library science
It is a rather curious fact in philosophy that the data which are undeniable to start with are always rather vague and ambiguous. You can, for instance, say: ‘there are a number of people in this room at this moment.’ That is obviously in some sense undeniable. But when you come to try and define what this room is, and what it is for a person to be in a room, and how you are going to distinguish one person from another, and so forth, you find that what you have said is most fearfully vague and that you really do not know what you meant. That is a rather singular fact, that everything you are really sure of right off is something that you do not know the meaning of [...].