Re: Knowledge and Belief

[Rob Zook <rzook@INFORMIX.COM>]

At 12:14 PM 1/1/98 -0800, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
>At 1998-01-01 13:00, Mark Vines wrote:
>
>>"The catcher knows that the pitcher threw the ball."
>>
>>Steven has suggested replacing {ba'o} with {mo'u},
>>which might be better.  He has also suggested replacing
>>{djuno} with {sidbo} & {du'u} with {nu}, which I think
>>is ridiculous; in my scenario, I *saw* the catcher
>>catching the pitch, so I feel justified in saying that
>>the catcher *knows* that the pitch happened.
>
>Right. As it's 'justified true belief', you _know_ that the catcher knows
>that the pitch happened.

If I see a catcher catch a pitch, I know what I see, not what goes
on inside anothers head. The catcher's knowing remains unavailable
until she decides to share it, unless one could build an argument
that the catcher probably knows something based on secondary
external evidence.


Rob Z.
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