Knowledge, certainty and probability
- 1 January 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Inquiry
- Vol. 6 (1-4) , 242-250
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00201746308601379
Abstract
In this essay, I discuss some of the important logical principles governing the concepts of knowledge, certainty and probability. In the first section, I suggest a series of definitions of epistemic terms, employing as primitive the locution ‘p is epistemi‐cally possible to S’ In the second section, I develop an epistemic concept of probability and compare it to the concepts of certainty and knowledge. In the third section, I relate the epistemic concepts of certainty and probability to the quantifiers of traditional logic and to a non‐episteznic concept of probability. I conclude by noting similarities and differences between the two concepts of probability.Keywords
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