as above

1. Knowledge

2. All swans are white.
Idris Elba is hench.
All penguins are black and
white.

3. Types of Knowledge
For each, what’s the key question?
• Acquaintance Knowledge = ?
– Knowing…
• Ability Knowledge =?
– Knowing…
– a.k.a. procedural knowledge
• Propositional Knowledge =?
– Knowing…
WHO
HOW
THAT

4. Definition
• “propositional knowledge is the type
of knowledge that is, by its very nature,
expressed in declarative sentences or
indicative propositions” (Wikipedia)
• Propositional knowledge is knowledge that
can be expressed in the form ‘I know that X’,
where X is any proposition of the form A is B.