Gerald Bivens

Projects

Definitions

'knowledge'=df

Knowledge is the perception of the agreement, or disagreement, of two ideas.1

If you put the two slogans together [‘Everything is a social construction’ and ‘All awareness is a linguistic affair’], you get the claim that all our knowledge is under descriptions suited to our current social purposes.2

Notes

  1. John Locke, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," in Publication (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), Page range.
  2. Richard Rorty, “A World without Substances and Essences,” in Philosophy and Social Hope (London: Penguin Books, 1999), 48.