Abstract

In this paper the aporetic situation of the Gettier-tradition of the theory of knowledge is discussed. Blind spots and twighlights are shown to hide a way out. Its methods of case-studies provoke the confusion as if situation-dependent criterial conditions of knowledge were situation-independent definitory conditions of knowledge. These methods are shown to rely on the hidden presupposition that a certain type of know-how is conditional for the knowledge-component of propositional knowledge. Even the most complex forms of scientific knowledge can be shown to have this conditional know-how-structure.