A wide-ranging study of the central concepts in epistemology - belief, truth and knowledge. Professor Armstrong offers a dispositional account of general beliefs and of knowledge of general propositions. Belief about particular matters of fact are described as structures in the mind of the believer which represent or 'map' reality, while general beliefs are dispositions to extend the 'map' or introduce casual relations between portions of the map according to general rules. 'Knowledge'...
A wide-ranging study of the central concepts in epistemology - belief, truth and knowledge.
Part I. Belief:1. The nature of belief; 2. Beliefs as states; 3. Belief and language; 4. Propositions; 5. Concepts and Ideas; 6. General beliefs; 7. Existential beliefs; 8. Further considerations about belief; Part II. Truth: 9. Truth; Part III: Knowledge. 10. Knowledge entails true belief; 11. The infinite regress of reasons; 12. Non -inferential knowledge (1); 13. Non-inferential knowledge (2); 14. Inferential and general knowledge; 15. Further considerations about knowledge; Conclusion; Works Referred to; Index.