The 'philosophical debate' thread. (Religious, member, quote, hands)

[littleknowitall]

so knowledge would depend on the person who took for granted that it was true? (sorry if this is wrong i'm trying to follow)

or is the case your trying to make that kowledge is 'true justified belief'?

[DontRunMeOver]

Originally Posted by littleknowitall

so knowledge would depend on the person who took for granted that it was true? (sorry if this is wrong i'm trying to follow)

Nope. A person's knowledge includes that which they take to be true and also that which they don't. They might be more likely to pass on the knowledge that they take to be true and to act upon the knowledge they take to be true. However, their knowledge still contains information they don't think is true.

The knowledge somebody picks up and retains will depend upon their own way of interpreting things (part of which comes from their 'beliefs', but from other factors too). If you exposed two different people to exactly the same external information in the same way the two people would still come away with different 'knowledge' of that same event.

[DontRunMeOver]

Fact and truth don't have a verb form (I'm not sure of the linguistic term here and we're can't use dictionaries remember). Knowledge does, which is 'to know'. For knowledge to exist, somebody or something has 'to know' it. This is more specific than information or truth, which can kind of float around unknown.

Knowledge is the portion of information which something has been exposed to which that thing is able to recall in some way.

[DontRunMeOver]

So was that it?