PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 9:08 pm
Age wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 4:41 pm
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Sat May 06, 2023 1:35 pm
This will also include knowledge about things that are not true by definition,
yet these things themselves are not construed as knowledge.
To sum this up everything about anything that can be expressed using language
is the body of analytical knowledge. Logical tautologies that are true on the
basis of their meaning are direct knowledge and everything else that can be
expressed using language is indirect knowledge in that we can have ideas about
other things that are:
(a) {Possibly true} such as theories and conjectures and working hypotheses.
(b) {Pure fictions} that are not construed as possibly true
Well 'all-of-this' just comes down to just KNOWING the ACTUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'KNOWING' and 'thinking'.
None-the-less the Gettier problem is easily abolished by simply specifying
a better definition of knowledge that links the justification to the truth
of the belief more tightly.
From what 'you' have so far described as being some so-called 'gettier problem', there there IS NO, and NEVER WAS ANY 'problem' NOR 'issue' here, from the outset ANYWAY.
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 9:08 pm
I can't understand why this was not done within
a few weeks of Gettier presenting his case thus permanently closing the
whole issue.
But the so-called 'issue' was NEVER OPEN, ANYTIME, well NOT from my perspective ANYWAY.
If one just WANTS a BETTER definition for the 'knowledge' word, then ABOLISH ALL sense or 'thinking' that 'that word' is IN RELATION TO the 'belief' word AT ALL.
What IS True IS JUSTIFIED, by ACTUAL PROOF, and NOT WITH ABSOLUTELY ANY 'thing' AT ALL to do WITH ANY 'belief', WITH the 'belief' word, NOR WITH ABSOLUTELY ANY 'thing' AT ALL to do WITH ANY 'belief'.
The 'knowledge' words COMES FROM or IS IN RELATION TO 'knowing', ALONE, which can ONLY BE True, Right or Correct, whereas 'belief' IS IN RELATION TO 'thinking' ONLY, which can be False, Wrong, or Incorrect.
And, CONTRADICTORY, people would ONLY, REALLY BELIEVE (in) 'things', which they ALREADY BELIEVE ARE true, BUT, PARADOXICALLY, ONLY DO BELIEVE (in) 'things' that they do NOT YET ACTUALLY KNOW to be True.