humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Apr 7, 8:38 am, Gordon Sollars wrote:

> Doesn't a dog know his master? You can use "know" in place of many
> words - "aware", "recognize", "understand", etc. - without doing
> violence to the English language.

Except when you use "know" to mean "not know" as in "I know but I am
not certain of it", e.g a conjecture. That does violence to the
English language.

> We say that a person knows how to ride a bicycle or play the piano.

When they actually do know how. Doesn't it do violence to the language
if you say that they know how, but in fact they don't?

>...Do you have a single definition that fits all the ways that
> "know" is used? I'll bet not, but in any event I am not trying to
> provide one.

Nor am I except that certain is...umm...certainly part of it. N'est
pas?

> ...Now, Ken likes to
> argue that knowledge is not belief, because knowledge has some special
> property that transforms it out of the category of belief altogether.

You mean the "special property" of truth - and your certainty of it?

Fred Weiss