[lit-ideas] Re: Agnotology
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:18:54 -0700
JL wrote
For Hintikka, it is a theorem:
If S knows that p, S knows that he knows that p.
This is, I think, known by some (who ought to have better things to do),
as the KK Principle. It may seem to stumble over the indiscernibility of
identicals, wherein, if
Myanmar = Burma
and Smith knows that (S) Myanmar is ruled by a military dictatorship,
Smith ought to know that (P) Burma is ruled by a military dictatorship,
so that
even though
that Myanmar is ruled by a military dictatorship entails that Burma is
ruled by a military dictatorship, it might seem that if Smith knows (S),
Smith knows (P); but just in case
Smith is unaware of this identity, it doesn't. So he does not know that
he knows that (P), and Logic is best left to Lewis Carroll.
Of course, KK works only with knowing that, not with knowing how.
As an undergraduate, W. V. Quine wrote a poem about this.
Forgive me.
Robert Paul
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