Précis of knowledge and its limits [Book Review]

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2):431–435 (2005)
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A creature that is not aware of anything does not lead a genuinely intelligent life. Its activity is unintelligent because unguided by awareness. Although intelligent life does not consist solely of awareness, it is intelligent only where it is intimately related to awareness. Awareness of anything involves some awareness of how things are in some respect. Even awareness merely of how things appear to be is awareness of how they are in respect of appearance. Awareness of how things are is awareness, concerning some way, that they are that way. But awareness that they are that way is knowledge that they are that way. Thus all intelligent life involves an intimate relation to knowledge. The mental states of a creature are the states that make its life intelligent. Consequently, the state of knowing is a mental state; it is central to mentality

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