The Meaning of Knowledge: Crash Course Philosophy #7

On today’s episode...CATS. Also: Hank talks about some philosophy stuff, like a few of the key concepts philosophers use when discussing belief and knowledge, such as what defines an assertion and a proposition, and that belief is a kind of propositional attitude. Hank also discusses forms of justification and the traditional definition of knowledge, which Edmund Gettier just totally messed with, using his Gettier cases.

Many thanks to Index the cat for his patience in the filming of this episode.
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[mercurae]

I think the definition of knowledge as true, justified belief holds up even with Gettier cases. Gettier cases are just examples of situations where one thinks a belief is justified but it isn't. If the "justification" is fallacious, that fallacious argument doesn't actually support the conclusion and it is therefore not actually "justified".

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[GelidGanef]

Here's a case: A boy, who grew up in france, had been given a piece of plum pudding once by an older gentleman. Later as a young adult, he had a second piece of plum pudding at a party, and the same older gentleman came in at the same exact moment, having followed a wrong address to the same party by chance. Much later in his life, and far from home, he saw plum pudding on the menu at a restaurant, and ordered a piece, telling his friends that all that was missing was the older gentlemen he had always eaten the dish with before. But he had no plum pudding that day. Because the now quite elderly man was in the same restaurant and had only just ordered the last piece.

Jung called this simultaneity: beliefs we hold, which are justified by evidence, and by strange coincidence or cosmic conspiracy turn out to be true, but where there is no logical, causal connection between our justified beliefs and the true reality. But I believe he would still have considered this a form of knowledge, a knowledge beyond knowing. He explained the power of many religions and superstitions with this concept.

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[IslaDrummond]

I used to have a teacher in high school who would say "oops I lied" when he has misspoken and produced false information. It used to really bother me because how could he lie without knowledge. This episode kind of reminds me of it, and also I think does relate to that issue.

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