ABSTRACT
There is an objective difference between one who has knowledge of something and one
who does not. This is true in both the occurrent and the dispositional senses of
“knowledge” and “knows.” That is, whether or not X has knowledge on a certain point
or about a certain matter – knows the English alphabet, for example, the narrative
content of War and Peace, or the date of Robert Kennedy’s assassination – is not a matter
of how anyone, including X himself, may think or feel about X and his conscious or
other states.
