PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Relativism, Coherentism, Foundationalism
8 Mar 2018
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In order to know something it has to be true. Since knowledge is always true, perception is always true. If the world appears a certain way to me then it must be that way for me. Socrates disagrees with such statement and questions its reliability. There are experts for different areas (ex. Experts are presumably wiser than non-experts who may have false appearances. It"s possible that there are experts in an area and p. r. is true of that area. Human judgements are both true and false according to socrates. We are either: always correct: therefore there are no experts. This contradicts our earlier belief that there are experts and non-experts. (incoherent option: mixed bag : then p. r. is false. Socrates argues that he does not even know what virtue is in the first place therefore he cannot know if it is teachable. All of the greeks desired to be virtuous. Cannot search for what you already have (ex.
