Tag: Gettier Cases
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Understanding “Understanding” and the Definition of “Definition”
In the last post I said that I understood life and the world pretty well. That is a grand claim. Based on what I’ve seen, most academic philosophers try to avoid such claims. I once heard a professional philosopher on a podcast say, “I don’t know what philosophy is.” “So you’re charging students to teach…
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Reframing Claim About Knowledge 1.0
Breadcrumbs: Philosophy/ItRaP/Epistemology/Knowledge Reframing Claim: Let’s consider Knowledge and Belief as mutually exclusive sets. The Traditional Structure In traditional western philosophy knowledge is usually considered to be true justified belief. It can be shown in the following Venn diagram. All of our beliefs are taken as a universal set. True beliefs are a subset of all…
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Rudya Aditya 