Truth. The person’s belief that p needs to be true. If it is incorrect instead, then — no matter what else is good or useful about it — it is not knowledge. It would only be something else, something lesser. Admittedly, even when a belief is mistaken it can feel to the believer as if it is true. But in that circumstance the feeling would be mistaken; and so the belief would not be knowledge, no matter how much it might feel to the believer like knowledge.…
Contemporary philosophers usually define knowledge as justified true belief. In order to claim that someone has knowledge of something, all three conditions have to be met. First is that the statement must be true. I can't claim to know that Elvis Presley…
knowledge: The awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decision.…
My initial idea of what my problem was started at work. My projects where not being completed on time and I needed to fix this. The first thing I did was expressing the problem. I asked myself a set of questions for example why is my work not being completed? How can I solve this? How can I view this from an outside perceptive? How can I gather information form other people to see if this is my problem or an outside one. Then I started to refine my problem carefully and examine it to make sure it was not an issue. After asking sets of questions from different people, I have determined that the first expression of the problem was the best. The problem is that at work my projects where not being finished in a timely matter. I came to this conclusion because no matter what kind of questions or information I can gather on the subject, I am still stuck with the same problem.…
I also believe that reality is basically changing – kind of like the old adage that says “you can never step in the same river twice” a river is still a river but it is never ever the same river as it was a week ago. I apply this to the concept of truth.…
Opinion can be defined in many ways; Wikipedia defines opinion as a belief about matters…
According to merriam-webster.com truth is defined as, “The property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality”. This seems simple enough, but merriam-webster also gives a different definition, “a true or accepted statement or idea.” Truth is thought of something as unchanging or “set in stone”, but what do they mean when they say “accepted statement or idea”? This gives the idea that truth is pliable, not just based on facts but also on opinions, does this make truth irrelevant? As everyone know truth cannot be based on a personal opinion, but it takes an opinion to accept something. The question of truth has been a philosophical question for ages. The world is full of changes, it really is run by things changing, all advances and discoveries are found because something has changed. A good example of a truth changing is the past theory about the world being flat. For thousands of years is was held that the globe was flat this was an irrefutable truth. But as technology and science began to change this was proven otherwise, all it took was a Aristotle to propose one simple theory to debunk one of the highest held truths. This calls into the question of truth all together, because who is to say there won’t be another debunking of this sorts. How can truth exist if has been proven over and over again to be false. This makes Merriam-Webster’s second definition more accurate, truth is almost something based on culture and society. It is something that must be accepted, or popular opinion. It is impossible to contain all the arguments about truth in this essay, but this definition is most suitable to the current day and age. With a world that is never really sure about the truth or refuses to accept it, the definition of truth must adapt so it won’t become totally…
What is knowledge? What is truth? How can we really know for sure if one judgment holds more truth than another? My theory of knowledge is information passed on from one person to the next. Before I am able to answer the above questions I have asked, the question of this idea that is true knowledge must be defined first. Knowledge can be any new piece of information that I come across daily. The coin phrase “you learn something new everyday” came from the most modest definition of knowledge that I know. So simple it does sound that knowledge is information. A person can have more knowledge than the next and that is how knowledge is spread around. It is up to me to decide if what I hear is truly knowledge. It is up to my on belief or judgment of what is said to me. The claim that knowledge is true judgment is not even true itself. It is impossible to know all truths and impossible to trust that everything I hear is true even if I judge it that way.…
epistemology. To come to a conclusion about if knowledge can be defined or not we need to look at theories of knowledge and the different views philosophers who have studied epistemology have. To define knowledge one must find a definition that states, what is necessary for knowledge as well as sufficient and cannot be challenged by counter examples. So what can one say knowledge is? The classic definition for knowledge is that a statement must be justified, true and believed at this point knowledge was defined as having a justified true belief, this is the is known as the tripartite definition for knowledge (Prosser, 2007). Therefore the classic definition of knowledge states that to have knowledge it is necessary that we have a justified true belief (Y only if X). Some philosophers claim that these three conditions however are not sufficient (Whenever X obtains, you are guaranteed Y) to define knowledge.…
Zero Knowledge Authentication Scheme based on Discrete Log Vineeth Pillai Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA vipillai@hawk.iit.edu, CWID: A20260824 April 26, 2012 Abstract: This paper details a variant of the parallel version of zero knowledge proof of identity which tries to optimize the space usage and number of iteration by not sacrificing the soundness factor. This protocol could a suitable candidate for smart card based authentication schemes where the smart card is usually inferior to the authentication unit in terms of processing power, storage capacity and communication infrastructure.…
Furthermore, Knowledge according to my definition is the means by which "facts" can be gathered to reinforce, or refute, different aspects of the information contained within our belief system. Often, it is asserted that something is "true" or "factual", but neither of these are actually relevant since the only consequence of knowledge that we…
Knowledge can be defined as something which is achieved through experience. Knowledge can be segregated into different areas like art, mathematics, human sciences, etc. All areas of knowledge are based on knowledge claims. Every area of knowledge is different from the other. Some of them are discovered while some are invented.…
Free will is the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate, the ability to act at one’s own discretion, freedom of choice, liberty…
Positivism includes application of natural science methods to social science research; phenomenalism; deductivism; inductivism; objective, value-free researcher; distinction between scientific and normative statements.…
knowledge and truth – with what and how we know and the limits of human…