What is Knowledge?

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.

An episode of the TOKTalk.net podcast, hosted by ok, titled "What is Knowledge?" was published on June 21, 2008.

June 21, 2008 · TOKTalk.net

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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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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.

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