KK thesis

KK thesis

According to "The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy", "The thesis that knowing that p entails that the subject knows that he knows that p." [cite book
last = Bunnin
first = Nicholas
coauthors = Yu, Jiyuan
title = The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
publisher = Blackwell Publishing Limited
date = 2004
pages = 776
isbn = 978-1405106795
]

The thesis derives it's name from the formal logic notation that denotes it: Kp→KKp. Literally: "Knowing p implies the knowing of knowing p."

As explained by Carruthers in "Human Knowledge and Human Nature", "'The KK thesis' ... holds that in order to know something, you must at the same time know that you know it." [cite book
last = Carruthers
first = Peter
title = Human Knowledge and Human Nature: A New Introduction to an Ancient Debate
publisher = Oxford University Press, USA
date = 1992
pages = 208
isbn = 978-0198751021
]

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