Sentence examples for necessary for knowing from inspiring English sources

According to Tye to have indexical knowledge of this kind is sufficient but not necessary for knowing what it is like to have a red experience.

To show that imaginative abilities are not necessary for knowing what it is like, Conee (1994) and Alter (1998) cite the example of a person who has no capacity to imagine having color experiences.

For the purposes of this essay we need not attempt to pin down precisely the nature of the pro-attitude toward p that is necessary for knowing that p. It is sufficient for our purposes to stipulate that assent is the pro-attitude toward p required to know that p. Let us use "EI-type" propositions to refer to epistemically interesting types of propositions.

Michael Tye (2000) concedes that none of the abilities considered by Lewis is necessary for knowing what it is like and he discusses the following possible revision of the Ability Hypothesis: knowing what it is like to have an experience of red is the ability to apply an indexical concept to an experience of red (while having it) via introspection.

Further studies are necessary for knowing if the release kinetics of this growth factor is time dependent or is related to an activating substance in particular.

A key necessary condition for knowing a proposition, according to Chisholm, was that the proposition be evident.

But then these three kinds of abilities cannot conjointly amount to knowing what it is like either: if they did, then contrary to (a)—each of them would have to be a necessary condition for knowing what it is like.

He first argues that none of these abilities is necessary and sufficient for knowing what it is like: (a) Mnemic abilities are not necessary, since someone can learn what an experience is like when first having it without already remembering an experience of the relevant kind.

It has been argued against Nemirow that the ability to imagine having an experience of a particular kind is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowing what it is like to have that kind of experience.

The primacy of knowledge is still defended in Oxford today by Timothy Williamson, according to whom knowledge is a mental state "being in which is necessary and sufficient for knowing p" (Williamson 2000, 21), and which "cannot be analysed into more basic concepts" (Williamson 2000, 33).

This fact give us the necessary and sufficient condition for knowing when we have found the last element of the minimum complete substring starting with π i.