[lit-ideas] Re: Agnotology
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:01:50 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/2011 2:51:27 P.M. , jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx
refers to
ajar:
1718, perhaps from Scottish dialectal a char "slightly open," earlier on
char (early 16c.), from M.E. char, from O.E. cier "a turn."
referring to McEvoy's lecture on redundancy:
"I ignore what I ignore"
McEvoy writtes:
"[If] the "I know(1) I know(2)" is meant so that "know" (1) and (2) are
the self-same mental state, ... the expression is redundant (and makes as
little sense as 'Please close the door which is the door"
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I know that p.
I know that I know that p.
No. It does not relate to the same mental 'state'. Someone may be ignorant
of Gettier's analysis of 'knoweldge' as 'justified true belief'.
"I know that p" --- as, as Grice says, 'when I say I know my name, or the
way home."
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"I know that I know" seems to require that you know what 'know' stands for.
Mutatis mutandi, for 'ignorance':
"I ignore that p." (Geary, "I ignore that the earth is flat.")
"I ignore that I ignore that p." requires, at the very least, a course in
agnotology -- "the science of ignorance", as defined by Prof. Proctor, of
Stanford.
Cheers,
JL
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