How to KnowHow to Know explores the questions of what we can know and how we can know that we know it. Written by a former Editor in Chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica, it is intended for students and general readers. |
Contents
knowing words | 16 |
common senses | 31 |
believe it | 52 |
evidence and authority | 80 |
a need to know | 97 |
prudence and the 3 cs | 114 |
postscript | 138 |
Common terms and phrases
ability accept actually answer anyway Aristotle assume authority begin behave believe born in Memphis brain called capsaicin certainly Chapter claim to know common sense consciousness course Croesus decided Delphi Descartes detect electrons Elvis is alive Elvis was born energy error evidence example exist experience fact false feel happen Hasselbacher human idea ideology imagine infer it's Tuesday Japanese Jenkins Joe McCarthy kind knew knowledge look Ludwig Wittgenstein Lysenko magnetism matter means mind nature observed oracles organism ourselves patterns Pearl Harbor perception perhaps person philosophers Pierre Salinger possible pretty probability proposition provisional question radar reason Richard Feynman Salinger say I know scientific method scientists seems sensations simply someone sometimes sort Soviet Union species statement sure Swinton things thought true truth Tuesday TWA Flight 800 understanding various War of Jenkins words wrong