How do you know if your beliefs are truth and are justified to be count as knowledge? A question that is two famous philosophers answered by their own ways and theories. Plato did a major impact when it came to answer justification part of this question and Descartes made the other impact and helped answering the knowledge part of this question. Why must a belief be justified to count as knowledge? Believes have to be justified first to count as knowledge because how can you know something that is
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The justified true belief theory of knowledge is an idea that if you have evidence to justify your belief then your justification makes that belief true. Your evidence holds true because of your previous experiences or your five senses thus making your idea true when you can rule out other alternative evidence. This theory is broken down into three necessary conditions: truth‚ belief and justification. Truth is the condition where it accurately represents the world; belief is when you believe something
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attacked the winner. These examples show that the argument of whether revenge is justified varies greatly‚ not so much depending on a situation itself‚ but on the perspective a person has on the situation. Going back to the first example‚ a judge who might be deciding the appropriate punishment for the impaired driver would probably immediately decide that the driver deserves to have their license revoked‚ and that the driver was stupid for driving under the influence no matter what his excuse. However
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1941-1945. The Holocaust‚ as it is referred to‚ was the mass murder or genocide of millions of people. The responsible party‚ The Nazi Regime‚ was a dictatorship out of Germany headed by their notorious leader‚ Adolf Hitler. The group targeted Jewish people and persecuted groups‚ such as gypsies and homosexuals. Hitler justified these actions because he felt the Jewish people were a lower class compared to the German people. Under the Nazi rule there was continued Jewish persecution. However‚ Hitler
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Can war be justified? Since September 11th‚ American news has been filled with stories and photographs of violent war. We were attacked mercilessly on our on soil‚ so most would say that the war on Afghanistan and Iraq are justified. But looking further into the matter‚ what are we really accomplishing with war? Are we proving that they shouldn’t bother us anymore? Or are we just getting revenge? Neither are justifications for war. We should in the first place keep the best relations possible
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self-defense against the state-advocated violence. (1990 p.111-116) The dissidence persisted against both the violence and the legal policies of the US‚ and was therefore seen as a threat‚ not only to national identity‚ but national security as well. The need for a Civil Rights Movement in the USA to ensure equal liberties to all its citizens was an example of an unrepresentative government failing to provide its people with the justices they thought they deserved. Following the abolition of slavery
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War on Terror was changing into a critical issue that cautioned the entire world after the scene of September11‚ 2001. The floored strike changed into the general ponder that went on the goliath impacts to the U.S government and either different nations around the globe too. Thousands modest individuals lost their lives amidst those shocking ambushes of terrorists. . No one knows when and where another snare like the one on September 11 will happen once more. In any case‚ the truth is "we are the
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Was it Justified or Necessary for the Americans to Drop the Bombs? Introduction On August 6th‚ 1945‚ an American B-29 bomber named “Enola Gay” dropped the world’s first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. The nuclear explosion killed nearly 90 percent of the cities population‚ killing 75‚000 people from the point of impact and thousands more dying from Radiation Poisoning later on. Three days later‚ on August 9th‚ a second B-29 bomber named “Bockscar” dropped a second Atomic bomb on the Japanese
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But this is justified; how can you respect the one whom Prophets proclaim as a threat to Albion-- a threat to your Destiny? Were Mordred’s intentions noble‚ you would treat him as a brother. You long for companionship‚ yet you turn away from Mordred. But this is justified; how can you befriend the one who will kill Arthur? The one who will pour blood and grieving over your sacred Destiny‚ leaving you stranded‚ broken and useless? To do so would be to spit in the face of your hard work. Which
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Was Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s children affected by his life before and after his death? Were his children considered famous or just more people in a crowd? Did they remember their father or did they loose their memory of him? Where the children discriminated? Questions to answer‚ reasons to be found‚ that’s what this paper is all about‚ answers. The people to answer these questions the best are the King children themselves. We will be focusing on Martin Luther King Junior‚ Yolanda King‚ Martin
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