PHL 101 Chapter 1: Plato's Theaetetus

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12 Jan 2017

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What is knowledge?

Four different answers

- Knowledge is perception

Theaetetus: “It seems to me that a man who knows something perceives what he knows,

and the way it appears at present, at any rate, is that knowledge is simply perception”

(151e)

Protagoras’ “Man is the measure of all things” (152) -- each man sees things differently

Socrates’ objections:

How can Protagoras be wise or be an expert? (161c)

Knowing vs perceiving language (163b)

Knowing vs memory (164)

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