Dogs know how to swim, but it’s unlikely they know any truths describing their activities.
-- Richard Fumerton, Epistemology
Really? So, say, if I put a bone on the other side of the river, the dog doesn’t know that it can swim across?
How would one tell?
First, you offer them a sequence of bets such that...oh wait.
“Go work in AI for a while, then come back and write a book on epistemology,” he thought.
Upon reading this, he wanted to map out the argumentative space in his head and decided to try to draw a line at one end, saying “Lets not get nuts. Mercury thermometers can react differentially to temperature, but they don’t know how hot it is.”
[citation needed]
Do dogs not know that bones are nice?
-- Richard Fumerton, Epistemology
Really? So, say, if I put a bone on the other side of the river, the dog doesn’t know that it can swim across?
How would one tell?
First, you offer them a sequence of bets such that...oh wait.
“Go work in AI for a while, then come back and write a book on epistemology,” he thought.
Upon reading this, he wanted to map out the argumentative space in his head and decided to try to draw a line at one end, saying “Lets not get nuts. Mercury thermometers can react differentially to temperature, but they don’t know how hot it is.”
[citation needed]
Do dogs not know that bones are nice?