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I wouldn't say most common people would say knowledge requires a knower. If you ask someone on the street and as them. ''Can I put knowledge onto a pi...
June 03, 2025 at 21:47
I re-read my comment and I could have made some bullet points or something. I hope you at least got the gist of it. But moving on to answer your quest...
June 03, 2025 at 21:26
You missed the point of the whole text. I meant to show how people use the same words with different meanings. If you'd say that knowledge is justifie...
June 01, 2025 at 22:41
See. Earlier you said something is made true by direct experience. In other cases in short translation you say that we need justified true belief for ...
June 01, 2025 at 22:33
We can define the word knowledge in various ways. Let's say someone x tells someone z , say Jane with all the right details (true information and thus...
June 01, 2025 at 21:59
When I use knowledge defined/to be translated as true information Then I'd not say that is just ''truth in the mind'' if by that you mean an assumptio...
May 31, 2025 at 21:46
If we translate/define knowledge as ''true information'' and separate it from knowing as I said. You get this. ''you can have true information and not...
May 31, 2025 at 21:27
Incorrect. I separate knowing from knowledge. (In the case I originally used knowledge to be Translated as true Information) So let's say something li...
May 31, 2025 at 21:03
We use the word knowledge to refer to things we use in the world. For example "something exist because this whatever this is is something" so we ask w...
May 31, 2025 at 20:45
I agree. Justified belief is probably what knowledge is if we take a descriptive approach. But it's just a way of holding it , but we can define 'know...
May 30, 2025 at 20:57
For the definition of truth bypass the difficulty to define it and just say it's ''if p then p'' meaning if p then p is true. I've had a similar view ...
May 30, 2025 at 15:04