PHILOS 2CT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.1-8.3: Empirical Evidence, Critical Thinking
4 Mar 2018
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Platos believes that knowledge is a belief that is true and justified. Three conditions must be met for knowing: (1) one must believe that point, (2) that point must actually be true, (3) there must be appropriate reason /justification for believing that point. A justified true belief (knowledge) meets the following conditions: the claim is believed by you the claim is true the claim is justified for you. Others have argued that there is a category pre-dates sense experience that is also a huge source about the beliefs of our world that include nothingness, infinity and logical relationships. The weaknesses of sense experience as evidence: image can be broadly distorted by changing simple mechanisms of the visual system (think of how all animals see differently and different types of light) Philosophers are constantly searching to find out what the world is really like.
