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The Metaphysics of Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
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The Metaphysics of Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
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The Metaphysics of Knowledge presents the thesis that knowledge is
an absolutely fundamental relation, with an indispensable role to
play in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind
and language.
Knowledge has been generally assumed to be a propositional
attitude like belief. But Keith Hossack argues that knowledge is
not a relation to a content; rather, it a relation to a fact. This
point of view allows us to explain many of the concepts of
philosophical logic in terms of knowledge. Hossack provides a
theory of facts as structured combinations of particulars and
universals, and presents a theory of content as the property of a
mental act that determines its value for getting knowledge. He also
defends a theory of representation in which the conceptual
structure of a content is taken to picture the fact it represents.
This permits definitions to be given of reference, truth, and
necessity in terms of knowledge.
Turning to the metaphysics of mind and language, Hossack argues
that a conscious state is one that is identical with knowledge of
its own occurrence. This allows us to characterize subjectivity,
and, by illuminating the "I"-concept, allows us to gain a better
understanding of the concept of a person. Language is then
explained in terms of knowledge, as a device used by a community of
persons for exchanging knowledge by testimony. The Metaphysics of
Knowledge concludes that knowledge is too fundamental to be
constituted by something else, such as one's functional or physical
state; other things may cause knowledge, but do not constitute it.
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