(January 4, 2016 at 12:06 pm)robvalue Wrote: The problem with knowledge being a true belief is that no one can ever be certain that anything is true. So what is actually knowledge, out of our "knowledge" is unknown and unknowable I would say. Also, if it is true, justification is irrelevant.
It is a tricky word to define, for sure. Informally, I'd just say knowledge on a personal level is justified belief. The knowledge pool however represents beliefs that have stood up to a reasonable amount of scrutiny from everyone and still appear to be most likely true. So again it is justified belief, with the justification being much more rigorous.
These are just my definitions.
Indeed. It is only by comparing our observations with those of others that we can arrive at an approximation of objective reality.
For those who would make the obvious objection, I regard an objective reality as axiomatic, given the reasoning that a subjective reality would require a subject to exist. Yes, it's Cartesian. That's about as close as I come to philosophy.
