what is the difference between knowledge and belief?
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What is the difference between knowledge and belief? A comparison between knowledge and belief.TRANSCRIPT
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ROSE AUNAETITRAKULEMILIO SOLOMON
ZAINAB YAQUB
What is the difference between knowledge and
belief?
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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
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What is truth?
Distinguishes knowledge from beliefObjective requirement for knowledge“If you believe something is true, does not
make it true.”
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Second-Hand Knowledge
Cultural TraditionSchoolThe internetExpert OpinionThe news media
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Limitations of Knowledge
Commonsense Example: The mental
mapRelativism
Example: CultureCertainty
Example: The belief-knowledge continuum
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What is belief?
Subjective requirement for knowledgeBelief-Knowledge Continuum
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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.
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How is belief justified?
“Someone told me” “I saw it”“I worked it out”“It’s intuitively obvious”
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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