This is

This is Philosophy Bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.

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we use the verb to know in many different senses

we know that three plus two equals five

we know how to ride a bicycle

we might even talk about knowing someone in the biblical sense. But what is it to know a person?

Catalan Farkash, whom I know a bit, explores this question.

Catteline Farkash, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thanks for inviting me. This is the highlight of my life.

The topic we're talking about today is what it is to know a person.

Before we get into that, perhaps you can just sketch out where

this question fits into questions about knowledge generally. In the Western philosophical tradition, knowledge of truth has been the paradigmatic example of knowledge.

At least ever since the Greeks, ever since Plato, people were interested in the question of what it means that we know

something, what it means when we know how things are, or what it means when we know

that something is true. Most analysis of knowledge analyze what it is to know something that's a fact or a proposition or something that's true.

But there are people who think that not all knowledge is knowledge of truths.

For example, Gilbert trials suggested that we have practical knowledge or knowing

how, that is different and irreducible from knowing Truths, and knowing things or knowing

Persons is another candidate for a different and

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