Plato's Theory Of Knowledge

Is there a difference between justified true belief and knowledge? For the philosopher Plato, these terms defined knowledge, until the philosopher Edmund Gettier proposed the contrary. Gettier suggested the knowledge is more than true justified and belief, so according to Gettier Plato’s theory does not define knowledge, because true, belief and justification can be satisfy. However, it does not exactly mean knowledge. Knowledge from my point of view is more complex than what Plato proposed. In this essay, I shall provide the reasons why I disagree with the JTB theory, I shall first describes Gettiers arguments, then discus individually the reasons why true, belief and justification fails, which finally, I shall present a possible solution …show more content…
She does not know how well she did on the test, but the fact is that did get an A, but this was just a mistake during her grade input. Thus, the relationship of true and knowing does not really correlated because believing does not necessary lead to knowing. One more time, we demonstrate that we do not have to depend on believing to define knowledge. Another example dismiss the condition of true to refer to knowing; Bob thinks he knows that he left the video game in the living room, he has evidence that he saw the video game recently at the living room, his little brother told him that he was playing with the video game at the living room, his mother told him to place the video game in his room, when Bob goes to play with his video game, he does not find it in the same place, he had evidences that it was in the living room, but it is not there anymore. The true is that the video game, it is on the living room, but he does not know that his mother placed it the living room shells. In this Gettier case, we said that the proposition of true fail one more time, because it is true that it is in the living room, but he does not know. This a problem that Gettier encounters in his analysis of the JTB theory which I also disagree with the JTB idea of the condition of true fact. Knowing a fact or having evidence for …show more content…
However, he does not know that there is a sheep behind the rock, the fact is true that there is a sheep, but his belief if false. Thus, this a reason why belief does not define knowledge, because believing can be misloaded. Believing is not the same as knowledge because someone can have strong belief, but the belief in fact can fog to see other point of views. The strongest the belief, the chances of not knowing increases. There is a gap that needs to be added to complement the JTB theory, belief does not refer to knowledge in many cases due to different causes. Let’s consider a Gettier problem to understand more why belief is not enough to be consider