On the other hand, if the awareness in step (b) is non-propositional, then it cannot give one the knowledge posited in step (c), because that knowledge is propositional — it involves the knowledge that one's sense datum is of a certain kind — and a non-propositional state cannot support a proposition (Sellars 2000, part I).
However, researchers on the sociology of scientific knowledge posit that science and society are interlinked and mutually influential [ 12, 13].
In his 1936 presidential address to the London Economic Club, Economics and Knowledge, Hayek posited instead a world in which knowledge is dispersed among many different agents and in which the information that any one agent holds is not necessarily correct.
An empiricist explains this common knowledge by positing implicit conventions that require everyone to associate the very same reference-fixing template with a given word (Jackson 1998b; Lewis 1969).
The hiatus, here, is well known: it is that already found between intuition and conceptual adequation; truth, in Plato's sense of an unmediated intuition of an Idea versus knowledge, as positing and possession of entities.
Ludlow disagrees with Hawthorne about the prevalence of clarificatory devices for 'know(s)' and argues that there is good reason to think its semantics includes some placeholder(s) for the variable standards of knowledge which EC posits.
(5) Without positing knowledge of individual objects we cannot explain why certain properties and relations tend to cohere.
As applied to dentistry, the knowledge-building framework posits that dental practice innovation results from dynamic interactions between dentists and their social context, including other dentists with whom knowledge sharing and transfer can take place.
The authors' proposed framework for disclosing privileged information risks positing knowledge of patients' attitudes and beliefs where there is none and threatens the privacy and health care interests of an already vulnerable population.
Social constructivism posits that knowledge is constructed from social interactions and meaning-making processes.
