The Importance of Disctinction Between Knowledge and Belief in Philosophy

Aquinas and Descartes have different ideas on how humans gain knowledge in the world. Both philosophers need to define what the human body is composed of in order to determine how we gain knowledge.

Doubt is the middle ground between blind acceptance and outright refusal to believe. Doubt lends itself to a certain uncomfortable feeling of questioning but is a necessary tool to reach perceived truth and knowledge. Without doubt, one would believe anything he or she is told; it is a natural filter for the information thrust upon us. Doubt is in some ways the opposite of faith. Faith insinuates an acceptance so powerful that one does not need evidence to back up one’s claim. The lack of evidence does not bother the faithful, but it will pester the doubter like an insatiable itch. But the specter of doubt looms over the doubter, demanding that questions be asked of whatever “fact” has been presented. The doubter will use the four ways of

The main argument here is that the knowledge represents for me the basis of my values, from which I learned most things, which in return guided me to the other good values like the honesty, responsibility and accountability. I highly believe that the knowledge is the major source of all other good

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In this paper, I will discuss the truth-belief-justification conceptual analysis of knowledge, which I will refer to as TBJ, Gettier cases, and an example that refutes TBJ. Conceptual analysis is an analysis of a proposition P with given premises to acquire knowledge of that P. The truth-belief-justification analysis of knowledge fails to provide sufficient conditions for someone to possess knowledge. For a condition to be necessary, it has to be satisfied to have knowledge of a proposition. If a condition is sufficient, then the person x will have some information to know something about proposition P. Jointly sufficient conditions are conditions that all need to be satisfied together to have knowledge about some P. They are necessary and supposedly jointly sufficient, but Gettier cases prove that extra conditions on top of TBJ are required to be jointly sufficient.

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In his 1963 article “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”, Edmund Gettier pointed out the fault in the traditional definition of knowledge and presented two counterexamples. The problem created by the two counterexamples is called the Gettier problem. In detail, the Gettier problem is whether a true belief based on invalid reasons counts as knowledge. My own Gettier counterexample is as follows. One day, my dad and I went to Costco Gas Station and there were already a lot of cars waiting for gasoline filling. So we queued in the last. When we were the next one to use the pump, there were two cars using the pumps, with one in the front and the other following it. My dad then asked me, of the two cars in front of us, which one would leave first.

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Absolute Truth and Personal Belief are mutually exclusive concepts; however, personal belief without a foundation of absolute truth is dangerous to the human soul. Unless on the witness stand in a court of law, or the thought of facing their Creator in the afterlife, the average person hardly thinks about absolute truth governing their daily lives. Few people wish to hear the truth about themselves; people generally prefer to believe whatever makes them feel comfortable in the moment.

In today’s world, many believe knowledge and faith contrast one another, but in actuality they are very closely related. One who studies knowledge or searches for knowledge is called a Philosopher. A philosopher is one that is committed to searching for knowledge which matches St. Anselm of Canterbury’s description of Christian faith as “faith seeking understanding.” A synonym for knowledge is understanding, because to fully comprehend or understand a concept, you must have knowledge about that concept. For example, philosophers postulated many theories in mathematics and science based on what they knew. An example of a philosopher would be Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton discovered many different scientific and mathematical principles such as gravity and derivatives. Scholars study these principles today in education. Sir Isaac Newton studied and worked as a scientist and philosopher but he also believed in the Christian faith. Faith is the belief in God. As a Christian, one believes that God created all things. The creator of a piece of machinery knows everything about that machinery such as: how it works, what is best for it, and how to fix it. Because God is the creator of all things, He knows all things. Because God wrote the Bible, it is

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Throughout the years, mankind has struggled with the relationship between knowledge and ignorance. In a free country where anyone can believe in whatever they please, it’s impossible to pacify everyone. Therefore, speaking up will always cause conflict. Due to this conflict, the majority has resolved to perceive reality exactly as it is without questioning the inner workings of existence itself. It’s much easier to accept what is than question what might be. As children, our minds are open to everything. The world was bright and beautiful, but as we grow up, we are taught to weed out what makes sense from what doesn’t and because of this, possible deviance from the normal way of thinking is destroyed. We are told over and over to “stop”; Stop

How many times have you said, “No way, I do not believe it!” It is our natural tendency not to believe in something that we have not seen with our own eyes or experienced it personally. There is a saying, “seeing is believing” which has led us to a world full of skeptics. We want proof so we are not gullible fools. Skepticism, or scepticism, as it was spelled back in the ancient times, was pondered by philosophers who tried unsuccessfully to figure out the thought process and how we gain knowledge. Philosophers gave deep thought to determine how we arrive at such true beliefs and knowledge of the external world. Three such philosophers were Rene Descartes, David Hume and Christopher Grau. Rene Descartes was a French philosopher in the early 1600’s; David Hume was a Scottish Philosopher in the 1700’s, and Grau an American philosopher Professor born in 1970. The timeline s important because philosophical views have evolved over time. All three men were from different eras, but they each explored, argued, and addressed the topic of skepticism from their philosophical view. This proves that they take the subject of skepticism seriously, just as we should too. There is good reason to believe that a human’s knowledge of the external world results from both a posteriori knowledge acquired through sensory experience and a priori knowledge which is innate. Descartes, Hume, and Grau through their personal views and skeptical

or that death is not the end. There is no way to prove that this is