class notes

Plato

• wanted knowledge that provided "certainty"
• it has to be described
• communicated effectively to others (must be convincing to reasonable people)
• certain knowledge: knowledge by description

different names for this

• platonic knowledge
• knowledge by description
• propositional knowledge (formal statement of convincing knowledge)
• knowing that

platonic knowledge

justification

• empiricism: knowledge by experience (seeing, touching, smelling, tasting, hearing)
• induction: from a specific to general theory
• deduction: from a general to specific theory
• rationalism: knowledge be previous knowledge ( A Priori knowledge)

truth

• is eternal
• is public
• is independent from a belief system

belief

• necessary but not sufficient
• component to knowledge