From a philosophical perspective, what do you think knowledge is?

Question

Is it simply just justified true belief?

Answer 1

From Hume to Plato, Wittgenstein to Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer to Confucius, there are multiple perspectives on what knowledge is, its origin, and purpose. I can't insist you side with Kierkegaard over Diogenes, but upon reading multiple insights, I have my own conclusions.
Knowledge is an accumulation of valuable information. Valuable information is subjective to the individual, people have their own priorities and inclinations according to their personalities and up-bringing. In a way, knowledge can be a justified or unjustified true belief, if the individual sincerely believes the information to be true, than it is true to them, even though it may be false or unjustified. The subjective nature of words, meaning and definition of knowledge is exactly the point Wittgenstein so eloquently made, philosophical problems originate with language ambiguities, because things can mean different things from one person to the next--classifying what is an absolute truth of anything is difficult and improbable with more than one person.
Technically, objective fact doesn't exist, neither does "Cause and Effect."
So you can see, philosophical knowledge just makes life more complicated. (Yet as Socrates said, "The un-examined life is not worth living," confront reality even if it unpleasant)

Answer 2

Knowledge is information of which a person, organization or other entity is aware. Knowledge is gained either by experience, learning and perception or through association and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.

Answer 3

When one is doubting...they are conceiving that something is not. Descartes used the famous "Method of Doubt" in order to come up with the saying "Cogito, ergo sum" or "I think, therefore I am." Descartes did this by doubting all the things that he could think of. ( He did not literally doubt things but rather accepted the fact that is was possible that they did not exist) He concluded that in doubting, he is thinking, and because he is thinking he must exist. The purpose of the "Method of Doubt" was to find a first principle that all knowledge was based on. Descartes' conclusion has holes in it, however. Although it does prove that thought exists, it does not prove that these thoughts exists within the bounds of a unified "I". Doubt cannot be the key to knowledge because the only thing concluded from doubting are things that are already known. Premise: I think Conclusion: Therefore, there is thought.

Answer 4

Knowledge is an illusion. For the subject (and, by analogy, objects) is (are) an illusion. Knowledge, however, is formulated as "someone knows something" (and a person is also something!). However, as there are no absolute things - all is flux, there is only *relative* duration and unity within the flux -, there is absolutely nothing to know and no one to know it. But the relatively durable relative unities we call organisms need the illusion of knowledge in order to survive: they need to consider themselves and other such relative unities which they encounter to be absolutely durable absolute unities (or, if not themselves absolutely durable, at least *composed* of absolutely durable unities, e.g. cells, molecules, atoms, etc.)

Answer 5

knowledge threw my extensive studies is really just hand me downs, for instance we only call a chair a chair cause that's what we were taught however if we grew up with the knowledge that it was called a fust then that's what we would call it. knowledge is like i pyramid built upside down you take out one block the it all falls apart so in sense knowledge is just an understanding of the past

Answer 6

Knowledge is the light that shines on us to show us

1 Where we have come from (the past)

2- Where we are (the present)

Answer 7

Knowledge , be it right or wrong is what we act upon everyday. ie.... I know the stairs will support my wieght so I use them.
This may be a very simplified answer but you get the point. maybe you should read Doris Lessing. Making an informed decision based upon knowledge.

Answer 8

No. Modern philosophy shown that it is not true.
See gettier cases for proof:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_case

As response, i personally believe that A know f.
If an only if
1. A believes f
2. f is true
3. A is justified in believing f is true
4. if f was false A would necessarily not believe in f
5. if f is true A would necessarily believe in f.

Answer 9

Knowledge is when your brain understands the information that is brought to it, and files it away and uses it to better a situation when it arises. So I think. Or did I just confuse myself.

Answer 10

Knowledge is power. At least it is according to Francis Bacon.