The mystery of what embodies "knowledge" is as old as philosophy itself. The Gettier Problem, refuting the JTB (justified true belief) account, has been a historical and on-going debate in the epistemological field. In simplistic terms, knowledge is understood as an awareness or understanding of something, such as facts, information, descriptions or skills, which are acquired through experience, perceiving, discovering, learning or intuiting. Consequently, truth is understood as a verified or indisputable fact. The debate lies on the issue of wether knowledge entails truth, or else truth is too unachievable for the human mind to prove as legitimate, making it impossible for knowledge to be undisputable.
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If a prisoner was released from the shackles that bound him to see only the shadows, and instead began seeing a new object, it would be incomprehensible to him, because he has never known it. This allegory could be interpreted as “knowledge” being the shadows that the men see, and “truth" being the objects beyond it, so it contrasts the two into being different. This can also be used to communicate the flaws with empiricism: the cave and its shadows, or else perceptive knowledge, are constricted to misunderstanding, because what we know as “true" may not be in accord with reality, contradicting our own definition of it. So, conclusively, knowledge would be a mere “shadow" of the …show more content…
What he stated was that reality, or truth, was independent from human thought, and that therefore it is unreachable. In his publication Critique of Pure Reason, Kant stated that experience of things is always of the phenomenal world as transmitted by our senses: we do not have direct access to things in themselves, the noumenal world. Subsequently, postmodernism developed upon this theory and denied the possibility of a purely objective view of reality (truth in knowledge). Within today’s society, our beliefs about life make up a set of spectacles through which we interpret everything and we can't remove them. Interpretation and perspective are in this case necessary to reduce objectivity, but equally humanity will be eternally disabled from acquiring what is meant by full truth. Accordingly, postmodernism takes a specific, skeptical attitude towards truth and a relative view of belief and
Some schools of thought may argue …show more content…
If a prisoner was released from the shackles that bound him to see only the shadows, and instead began seeing a new object, it would be incomprehensible to him, because he has never known it. This allegory could be interpreted as “knowledge” being the shadows that the men see, and “truth" being the objects beyond it, so it contrasts the two into being different. This can also be used to communicate the flaws with empiricism: the cave and its shadows, or else perceptive knowledge, are constricted to misunderstanding, because what we know as “true" may not be in accord with reality, contradicting our own definition of it. So, conclusively, knowledge would be a mere “shadow" of the …show more content…
What he stated was that reality, or truth, was independent from human thought, and that therefore it is unreachable. In his publication Critique of Pure Reason, Kant stated that experience of things is always of the phenomenal world as transmitted by our senses: we do not have direct access to things in themselves, the noumenal world. Subsequently, postmodernism developed upon this theory and denied the possibility of a purely objective view of reality (truth in knowledge). Within today’s society, our beliefs about life make up a set of spectacles through which we interpret everything and we can't remove them. Interpretation and perspective are in this case necessary to reduce objectivity, but equally humanity will be eternally disabled from acquiring what is meant by full truth. Accordingly, postmodernism takes a specific, skeptical attitude towards truth and a relative view of belief and