illustrate the inherent dangers that lurk in building belief systems on an illegitimate foundation and why you are morally obligated to hold true belief systems. What is a belief? It is a thought(s) that is truth to the mind. Beliefs may not always be true or legitimate‚ but the fact that the mind believes them forges them in to concrete building blocks. This creates a foundation on which actions come to fruition and morals come in to play. Once beliefs are held‚ they can be very difficult to break.
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You believe that P‚ (2) You have justification for P and (3) that P is true. This definition of knowledge was thought to have satisfied many philosophers for centuries after Plato‚ this was until philosopher Edmund Gettier wrote ‘Is justified true belief knowledge?’. In this short paper he argues that justification and truth is necessary for knowledge but not sufficient thus concluding that we need something more. Although Gettier hasn’t written anything since‚ there have been a number of responses
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Knowledge versus Belief Introduction The traditional or classic definition of knowledge was proposed by Plato in his dialogue Theaetetus−that “knowledge is justified true belief”. This view is formulated by a study of justified beliefs that constitute knowledge‚ this study is called Epistemology. Epistemology as a branch of philosophy deals with certain questions that are conducive to know what knowledge is. These questions can be proposed in the following way: What are the necessary and sufficient
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personal values and personal beliefs Personal beliefs are statements‚ principles or doctrines that individuals choose to accept as true. While others may argue their credibility‚ if an individual genuinely believes in a cause or a feeling‚ it can be credited as a personal belief. Personal values differ‚ in that they are more of a measurable discipline. They really have nothing to do with outside influences. While personal values are definitely woven into personal beliefs‚ values are personal choices
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Edmund Gettier’s finest work‚ “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” explains the concerns he has with the way we have formed our conditions for knowing something to be true. Many philosophers had attempted to explain the necessary conditions for someone to know a given proposition to be true‚ which led to Chisholm and Ayer constructing the necessary and sufficient conditions for a justified true belief‚ knowledge. These attempts were stated in the following form: (a) S knows that P is true‚ if and
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Does Clifford present a persuasive viewpoint of religious faith? In his article “The Ethics of Belief (Clifford‚ 1877) W.K. Clifford sought to claim that it is inappropriate always‚ in all places‚ and for anyone‚ to believe anything upon unsatisfactory evidence. The goal of this paper is to determine whether indeed this opinion offered by Clifford‚ when considering religious faith‚ is persuasive. To successfully do this‚ I will weigh up the arguments that Clifford put forward‚ including that of disbelieving
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these said beliefs. In psychology this is commonly known as belief perseverance‚ this is when people cling to their beliefs‚ even when faced with contrary evidence. Throughout the film “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose‚ one can clearly see how these personal beliefs and experience cloud the mind and judgement of the jurors because of this it takes a very long time for a clearly innocent man to be seen as innocent due to the personal beliefs of some of the jurors and because of those beliefs they were
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BAFOKENG SEKALELI TOK ESSAY CAN WE HAVE BELIEFS OR KNOWLEDGE WHICH ARE INDEPENDENT OF OUR CULTURE? The main aim of the essay is to find out if we have beliefs or rather knowledge which are independent of our culture. To do my investigation‚ I am going to follow different areas of beliefs and culture that I need. Culture is roughly perhaps a range of activities which are cultivated as a pattern of behaviour in a group of humans over time‚ and the manifest
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or avoided waling under a ladder‚If yes‚then its definitely you are practicing superstitious belief. Today‚I’m going to talk about superstitious belief among students.What are superstition?According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary‚8th Edition‚ Superstition is the belief that particular events happen in a way that cannot be explained by reasons or science. Superstition are based on a belief that future events are influenced by specific bahaviours‚ without having a causal relationship
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Justin Coiscou PHI 332 Course Paper What is wrong the claim that knowledge is true judgment (or belief)? 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
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