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Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge
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RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge
To believe something is to be able to announce a statement even to yourself in your own head when no one else is looking, and you 100% honestly mean that statement sincerely. Thus, you will act on it whether someone is around or not. Because all belief is genuine (if you don't genuinely believe something then you don't believe it at all) and genuine behavior therefore follows belief.

Knowledge is justified true belief. You have to believe something, that something has to be true... and you can't just be right about it by sheer accident.

The so-called Gettier problem involves an analogy that is supposed to illustrate cases where even JTB isn't knowledge. However, it simply commits the equivocation fallacy. JTB is knowledge.
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Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Grandizer - January 1, 2018 at 2:31 am
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by bennyboy - January 1, 2018 at 3:03 am
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by DLJ - January 1, 2018 at 11:42 am
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by SaStrike - January 1, 2018 at 9:07 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Fireball - January 1, 2018 at 12:18 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Minimalist - January 1, 2018 at 12:44 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by ShirkahnW - January 1, 2018 at 6:20 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2018 at 6:22 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by bennyboy - January 1, 2018 at 7:29 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Edwardo Piet - January 1, 2018 at 7:10 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Aoi Magi - January 1, 2018 at 7:26 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Grandizer - January 1, 2018 at 9:13 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by mlmooney89 - January 1, 2018 at 10:32 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Catholic_Lady - January 1, 2018 at 10:35 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Grandizer - January 4, 2018 at 12:04 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by DLJ - January 4, 2018 at 12:58 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by TwoKnives99 - January 4, 2018 at 1:57 pm
RE: Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge - by Grandizer - January 16, 2018 at 6:55 am

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