knowledge and belief
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ROSE AUNAETITRAKULEMILIO SOLOMON
ZAINAB YAQUB
What is the difference between knowledge and
belief?
What is knowledge?
“Justified true belief”Ways of Knowing
(WoK) Emotion Reason Perception Language
Plato’s Theory of Knowledge K= JTB
J= Justifiable T= Truth B= Belief
What is truth?
Distinguishes knowledge from beliefObjective requirement for knowledge“If you believe something is true, does not
make it true.”
Limitations of Knowledge
Commonsense Example: The mental
mapRelativism
Example: CultureCertainty
Example: The belief-knowledge continuum
What is belief?
Subjective requirement for knowledgeBelief-Knowledge Continuum
Kinds of Belief
A vague belief Example: Eating fish helps you concentrate
A well-supported belief Example: I believe that my teacher gave me too much
homework because it took me five hours to finish it all.
A belief that is beyond reasonable doubt Example: On September 11, 2001, the World Trade
Center collapsed.
How is belief justified?
“Someone told me” “I saw it”“I worked it out”“It’s intuitively obvious”
Limitations of Belief
The role of judgment Example: “The real world”
The danger of gullibility Example: Yahoo! Articles,
eHow.com, Stanley Milgram Experiment
The danger of skepticism Example: Science/Theories