What is Knowledge?

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http://www.toktalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MP3/014-toktalk-knowledge.mp3 Plato defined knowledge as “Justified true belief”. For a person to know something he/she has to believe it, has to be able to justify it and it has to be true. This is explained here. The tree criteria needed for a person to know something are: Lack of justification: “I know that aliens exist” – there is no way that you can provide a justification for this claim. Therefore you can not know it. Lack of belief: “I know that the world is round but I don’t believe it.” – this is a contradictory statement. For you to know something you have to believe in it. But not every belief is knowledge! Lack of truth: I know that a circle has 3 corners. – You can not know things that are evidently not true. Four possible ways to justify one’s belief are: Memory Authority Logics Empirical evidence

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