Conveying Information

• Published in: Synthese (Dordrecht) Vol. 123; no. 3; pp. 365 - 392
• Main Author: Graham, Peter J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.06.2000; Springer; D. Reidel Pub. Co., etc; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accidents; Aural learning; Beliefs; Children; Counterexamples; Epistemology; Evolutionary theories; Fossils; Information standards; Justified beliefs; Knowledge; Philosophical logics. Philosophy of language; Philosophy; Relevant alternatives; Snow; Testimony; Theoretical linguistics; Truth; Belief; Testimony; Reid (T.); Epistemology;Philosophy of Science; Linguistics; Model; Perception; Transference; Information; Knowledge; Acceptability; Communication
• ISSN: 0039-7857; 1573-0964
• DOI: 10.1023/A:1005162716568

According to the model I prefer, knowledge is not transferred through communication, rather Information is conveyed.The standard view, roughly expressed and absent various qualifications, some of which will be entertained and discussed below, endorses the following two claims. According to this objection the example is not a counterexample to a thesis about howCONVEYING INFORMATION 373knowledge comes about when one accepts the statement of another; it does not apply to (KN).13The idea behind the distinction is that when a hearer makes use of a report for knowledge the hearer learns regardless of whether the speaker knows. [...]the objector concludes, theCONVEYING INFORMATION 379case does not apply to (KN2), for there is a knowledgeable speaker in the chain of the students sources.This objection presupposes that the schoolteacher is reporting some particular fact that someone else has already discovered. [...]the beliefs the subject state come very close to comprising a theory, applied to the particular case, of when linguistic acceptance produces knowledge.