What is knowledge?
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The origins and nature of knowledge
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling
in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the
utmost that vice promised to her followers, and
rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her
whiteness is but an excremental whiteness
Areopagitica- John Milton (1644)
A definition of knowledge
Justified true belief
Justification
Truth
Belief
Truth tests
• correspondence
• coherence
• pragmatism
Two kinds of knowledge
• Shared knowledge
• Personal knowledge
Links between shared and personal knowledge
Shared knowledge
Personal knowledge
Knowledge Questions
Knowledge Questions: Examples