The phrase "a claim to knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing assertions or beliefs regarding what someone knows or understands about a particular subject.
Example: "His argument was based on a claim to knowledge that was not supported by any evidence."
Alternatives: "an assertion of knowledge" or "a declaration of understanding".
But, since truth is a necessary condition for knowledge, bad epistemic luck is sufficient to undermine a claim to knowledge.
He's worried that emphasizing the historical truth of a claim to knowledge leads to relativism, according to which one can't say what is objectively true.
He's worried that emphasising the historical truth of a claim to knowledge leads to relativism, according to which one can't say what is objectively true.
That is, by the last third of the 18th century natural philosophy has an authoritative claim to knowledge even if it is founded on very uncommon, "abstruse" principles.
Because the result of this kind of interrogation, theoretical empirical knowledge, is so obviously fruitful, and also carries with it seemingly uncontentious norms of progress, its mere presence poses a legitimation challenge to a form of thought, and claim to knowledge, that is distinct from it.
The trouble with this is that if we can say nothing to support a claim to such knowledge, those who disagree with it can only register their disagreement and pass on; hence ethical debate is liable to turn into the expression of conflicting judgements which admit of no resolution.
By discounting the whole notion of spiritual awakening, atheists make a claim to false knowledge.
The main point we are trying to make, here, is that there is a long tradition of philosophical thought that deals with these questions of justification, knowledge and truth, and a commitment to any specific empirical bioethics methodology is likely to involve aligning oneself with a particular epistemology about how a claim to moral knowledge can be justified.
Socrates' questions start from his partner's initial statement, which usually implies a claim to wisdom or to knowledge of a subject related to virtue.
It explores particular modes of claiming space through an archeology of the claims to knowledge and legitimacy put forward by a national park and a campesino community, respectively.
Still, there is a problem of the relationship of a PCE to the subsequent claims to knowledge, such as when Eckhart purportedly grounds knowledge of the soul and God as one, in a PCE (see Forman, 1993a).
