May 1, 2006

logic question to ask random people

Question: Does a factive conception of knowability figure in ordinary use?

Ask it to everyone you meet. (Don't be alarmed if they're unsure of the answer.)

Oh, you want the answer, too?

Answer: There is some reason to think so.




[eighty-second in a series]

5 comments:

MT said...

I reckon that's more like one of them metaphysical or epistemological questions than a logic question.

Anonymous said...

Er, uh, yeah. That essay at the other end of the link looked cool until it started using letters from other languages. That's when I pulled the ripcord and floated back down here to vernacular-land.

Jim Anderson said...

I took a broad view, murky. I quote: "The paper examined a clutch of issues concerning principles of epistemic logic and the knowability of truth."

Anonymous said...

Link is dead. Try http://pages.slu.edu/faculty/salernoj/KnowabilityClosure.pdf instead.

Jim Anderson said...

Fixed. Thanks, anonymous.