Awareness and the Substructure of Knowledge

To say that someone is aware of a fact is a commonplace expression, not at all a philosopher''s term of art. It is often used to criticize, excuse, admonish, and inform others. Such uses of the expression presuppose the existence of a state of awareness that one can be in or fail to be in with regard to some fact. Here lies the phenomenon of factual awareness. It is conventional in epistemology to...