The definition of knowledge. One lesson at a time: listen to the episode, play the three games until the streak holds, then write to a real past-paper question in the time the exam gives you.
Specimen to 2026, by tariff. A dash means that year's question at that tariff was on another unit of the same section.
| Year | 3 marks | 5 marks | 5 marks | 12 marks | 25 marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specimen | — | — | — | — | Q05How should propositional knowledge be defined? |
| 2019 | Q01Define (a) acquaintance knowledge, (b) ability knowledge, and (c) propositional knowledge. | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | — | Q03Explain the view that belief is not a necessary condition for knowledge. | — | — |
| 2021 | Q01What is the difference between a priori knowledge and a posteriori knowledge? | — | — | Q04Explain how an account of epistemic virtue can be used to show why Smith lacks knowledge in one of Gettier's original counter-examples. | — |
| 2022 | Q01What is the difference between a necessary truth and a contingent truth? | Q02Explain the reliabilist definition of knowledge. | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | — | — | Q04Explain one of Gettier's original counter examples and explain how the addition of a 'no false lemmas' condition responds to it. | — |
| 2024 | Q01What is meant by (a) a necessary condition and (b) a sufficient condition? | — | — | — | Q05Is there a successful way in which propositional knowledge can be defined? |
| 2025 | Q01What is the difference between analytic truths and synthetic truths? | Q02Explain the tripartite view of propositional knowledge. | — | — | — |
| 2026 | — | — | — | Q04Explain why the conditions of the tripartite account of knowledge are not sufficient and explain how a reliabilist account of knowledge can be used as a response. | — |
Read your answer as the examiner will. Which of these would they write beside it?