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 criminal justice system needs reform to avoid wrongful convictions and unprepared re-entry to society. Each year‚ thousands of people are convicted of crimes they do not commit. A few main causes of wrongful convictions are eyewitness misidentifications‚ government misconduct‚ and bad lawyering. In many cases‚ those exonerated of the crimes they didn’t commit and now they longer have the proper resources to re-enter society successfully. In one case example involving eyewitness misidentification
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The Reign of Terror -Not Justified 1793 to 1794 is when the Reign of Terror began and end. The Reign of Terror was about 2 years from when Louis XVI was beheaded and around the time 20‚000 people were guillotined. 35‚000 people were killed by officers and officials. The Reign of Terror was not justified.The claim stated can be supported by these 3 reasons: they were threatened in wrong ways for the wrong things ‚ the methods used were not necessary‚ and the reasoning they gave did not match the
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attitudes that foster hardy relationships between the teacher and their students (Ryan‚ Cooper‚ & Bolick‚ 2016‚ p.156). Personally‚ I experienced this level of success in my professor Jay Varner at James Madison University. Varner had an unprecedented enthusiasm for reading‚ writing‚ and rhetorical matter. Not only was he incredibly knowledgeable about these topics‚ but he presented them to the class
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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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Xia Huang Matthew Deady First Year Seminar Dec 4th‚ 2008 How is Slavery Justified? Enlightenment thinkers tried to search for a way to understand the world on a base of reason. They advocated the independent thinking of human beings without being constrained by the church and previous authorities. They pursued the freedom and inherent rights for each and every human being and tried to stand up against tyranny and totalitarianism. However‚ at the same time‚ religious belief‚ political concern
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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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Jay Gatsby can be considered “great” based on several aspects. First off‚ to get a real sense of his achievements‚ you have to know about his past. He was born James Gatz to an extremely poor farming family in North Dakota‚ and always hated his poverty. He ended up going to St. Olaf College in Minnesota‚ which he promptly dropped out of‚ because he was "dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny.” He then went to Lake Superior‚ where he met and befriended a copper tycoon named
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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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