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Originally Posted by Brian Bosse  Hello Everyone,
The most common definition for 'knowledge' is something along the lines of justified true belief. I think this definition is good; however, it is problematic in that the term 'justified' is not well defined. What is a justified belief?
Sincerely,
Brian |
One of the most basic questions of philosophy.
Does 'justify' modify 'true' or 'belief' or both. Does 'justify' modify 'true' modify 'belief'? Are the three terms a list that defines knowledge, each a predicate of knowledge by itself. Can we say knowledge is justified AND true AND belief?
Can one say he knows something if it is false? That is, is all knowledge true such that a person can not know a falsity (false proposition)? Or is knowledge simply that which we believe is justified true?
And we have to get from 'knowledge' to 'know'. Even if we can demonstrate something is knowledge, how do we then go about knowing it?
This should be an interesting discussion.
P.S. We should also qualify if we are speaking about the epistemological meaning of the word "knowledge" or the word as found in Scripture. For many, the only "true" definition of a word is the meaning found in the Bible. In that case, "to know" takes us to a whole new realm - and you better look out for the local biblicists.
Should we talk about the meaning of "definition"?
where to start?
Let's begin with Webster.
Don't try to answer each question in one post. Hope I'm not scaring anyone off.
So I will start out with: 'justified' is deducible from prior true premises.