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An 8 page paper which examines the traditional account of knowledge, considers Edmund Gettier’s counter example and responses to Gettier’s argument. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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properly! Most schools of philosophy are, primarily, scientific inquiries into what purports to be knowledge. The general consensus has long
been that belief systems cement the foundation of knowledge (Morton, 1997). According to University of Oklahoma Professor of Philosophy Adam Morton (1997), labels are affixed to beliefs because, "There
are properties we want our beliefs to have: we want them to be true rather than false... The theory of knowledge is concerned with the difference between good and bad
beliefs" (p. 1). Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals specifically with the study of knowledge. It attempts to determine what knowledge is, and skeptically ponders whether
or not that which is concluded to be knowledge actually is, or simply is a rush to judgment based on appearances. It was the ancient Greek philosophers who developed
what has long been accepted as the standard for epistemology. Plato, in particular, established the traditional criteria in his Socratic dialogue, Theaetetus, in which Theaetetus, one of Socrates followers
and a brilliant thinker in his own right, asserts that, "True belief is knowledge" (200e). As was his custom, Socrates then develops his inquiry into the contention to see
if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of facts which can be known only by an eyewitness, then, judging by hearsay and accepting
a true belief, they are judging without knowledge, although, if they find the right verdict, their conviction is correct? THEAETETUS: Certainly. SOCRATES: But
if true belief and knowledge were the same thing, the best of jurymen could never have a correct belief without knowledge (201c). Plato, based on the outcome of Socrates
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