Calling something evidence and it being evidence are two different things.
Also, I would suggest instead that 'knowledge' is information that has been tested via rigorous peer review via the scientific method.
is describing one of the manners of developing a justification for and verifying the truth of a belief, and thus yielding knowledge. There are other ways to develop knowledge. Formal scientific method yields good results in cases where inductive reasoning is needed, but it is unneeded in cases where direct experience is needed. Also there are many sorts of things that you can not apply the scientific method to that you can still have knowledge of. (I've said this before in this thread: setting aside strong Cartesian skepticism) You can know your internal states in the absence of the SM, you can know things from your past in the absence of SM, and you can know the existence of external objects without having to apply the scientific method (though you do have to answer the Cartesian skeptic for both the past and the existence of outside objects.)
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Date: 2007-12-04 08:11 pm (UTC)Also,
I would suggest instead that 'knowledge' is information that has been tested via rigorous peer review via the scientific method.
is describing one of the manners of developing a justification for and verifying the truth of a belief, and thus yielding knowledge. There are other ways to develop knowledge. Formal scientific method yields good results in cases where inductive reasoning is needed, but it is unneeded in cases where direct experience is needed. Also there are many sorts of things that you can not apply the scientific method to that you can still have knowledge of. (I've said this before in this thread: setting aside strong Cartesian skepticism) You can know your internal states in the absence of the SM, you can know things from your past in the absence of SM, and you can know the existence of external objects without having to apply the scientific method (though you do have to answer the Cartesian skeptic for both the past and the existence of outside objects.)