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'Enquiry' Seminar SeriesRescheduled from 10 August: Guest Speaker: Simon Wimmer (TU Dortmund) Title: 'Cook Wilson's Inquiry Argument for the Indefinability of Knowledge' Cook Wilson's Inquiry Argument for the Indefinability of Knowledge
Can knowledge be defined? In his (1926) Statement and Inference, John
Cook Wilson answers 'no' to this question. He offers two arguments for his answer. The first turns on the claim that definitions of knowledge will inevitably be circular; the second on the claim that we cannot even inquire into what the definition of knowledge is. This paper focuses on the second of these arguments. We attempt a detailed reconstruction of the argument and survey what might be said in defense of its central premises. |