The theory of knowledge that serves as the foundation of philosophy is flawed. — Cheshire
Change my mind. — Cheshire
Knowledge 'ought to' be true, but often it is not, because of the mistakes we make in our understanding of the facts. — Cheshire
A thing that is knowledge can exist as the content of a book. The book does not have to believe it or justify it, only contain it. So, knowledge may exist without being believed or justified. — Cheshire
Knowledge 'ought to' be true, but often it is not... — Cheshire
You're conflating one's statement that something is true, or is a piece of knowledge, with the definition of knowledge — Sam26
If it ain't true, then it ain't knowledge. — creativesoul
Knowledge is a success word, it accomplishes a purpose, that of being true. Knowledge is not a matter of simply saying something is true, it requires that the belief be correct. — Sam26
↪Cheshire It’s not always going to be the case. Sometimes the things I think I know are true, and so I really do know them. — Michael
And why “acknowledge that some knowledge will eventually be proven wrong” when we can instead acknowledge that some things we don’t actually know? The latter seems a far more reasonable approach. — Michael
And why “acknowledge that some knowledge will eventually be proven wrong” when we can instead acknowledge that some things we don’t actually know? The latter seems a far more reasonable approach. — Michael
Because we cannot tell the difference between what we actually know and what we think we know until it's proven wrong. — Cheshire
It doesn't follow from this that we should talk about "wrong knowledge" rather than "not knowledge".
I would say that if I think I know that your name is John and if I find out that it's not actually John then it's better to say that I didn't know that your name is John than to say that I knew but was wrong. — Michael
It goes back to my assertion there is no observable difference between "what I know" and "what I think I know" at any given moment, so I cannot exclude the latter in my description of knowledge. — Cheshire
There's also no observable difference between what's true and what's false at any given moment, but we don't then say that something is true just because we believe it to be so. — Michael
Don't we? Every time I say something is true is just because I believe it is true. Otherwise, I'm not properly truthing. — Cheshire
We can believe that something is true even if it isn't, and we can believe that we know something even if we don't. — Michael
Conflating between truth and belief... — creativesoul
I do not agree with Sam regarding what counts as justified belief. It does not require being argued for(the act of justification) on my view. — creativesoul
No one has any problem saying knowledge is true, but suggest it can also be false... — Cheshire
The suggestion is nonsense, and leads to self-contradiction. — creativesoul
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