Sufficiency versus necessity
What Sufficiency versus necessity means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Attacking necessity concerns a condition being absent while knowledge remains; attacking sufficiency concerns all conditions present but no knowledge.
The argument concerns whether the conditions are sufficient, not whether they are necessary.
Topics that use Sufficiency versus necessity
- What is knowledge? (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Ability knowledge
- Acquaintance knowledge
- Counterexamples
- Definition of knowledge
- Epistemic virtue
- False lemmas and inferential routes
- Necessary and sufficient conditions
- Propositional knowledge
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