Part I: Basic theory of knowledge (epistemology)
Epistemology is the examination of the nature and extent of knowledge itself. It determines the nature of knowledge in addition to how it presents to similar concepts such as truth, belief and justification.1 It try’s to justify the fundamental question, what tells us the difference between true adequate knowledge from false inadequate knowledge?2 It also attempts us to be able to answer “How do we know?”3 because do we really know anything? Epistemology is important in both philosophy and our every day life because it is the clarification of how we think. It is not only knowledge but truth, belief, justification, skepticism, rationalism, empiricism, realism and idealism that makes up epistemology. …show more content…
A belief is basically a concept or assumption which we consider to be true. Philosophers talk about what a belief is repeatedly and have come up with that any piece of information that we believe is to be true is a belief. For an example you can say that 2+2=4 or that overeating causes obesity this is all something we believe in. A belief can be something common or something specific or something that might not have been true. It is imperative that your beliefs have a truth value.5 What I mean by this is that they are adequate of being true or false. We can always believe in what we want but sometimes what we are misguided because even though some of our beliefs are true some are false. At same time we are attempting to gain knowledge, we don’t always receive true beliefs but we can believe in what ever we think is true.6
Justification is related to knowledge, truth an belief. It is related because justification is the reason why someone keeps a belief , the clarification to why the belief they hold is true rather then untrue, or according to what one knows best.7 We use justification in philosophy to make sure something is true and not false. What I mean by this is that a belief must have a reason to be believed outside of the limits of your own thoughts because a lot of people come forth with things they believe in but never think about having reasons to back them
Epistemology is the examination of the nature and extent of knowledge itself. It determines the nature of knowledge in addition to how it presents to similar concepts such as truth, belief and justification.1 It try’s to justify the fundamental question, what tells us the difference between true adequate knowledge from false inadequate knowledge?2 It also attempts us to be able to answer “How do we know?”3 because do we really know anything? Epistemology is important in both philosophy and our every day life because it is the clarification of how we think. It is not only knowledge but truth, belief, justification, skepticism, rationalism, empiricism, realism and idealism that makes up epistemology. …show more content…
A belief is basically a concept or assumption which we consider to be true. Philosophers talk about what a belief is repeatedly and have come up with that any piece of information that we believe is to be true is a belief. For an example you can say that 2+2=4 or that overeating causes obesity this is all something we believe in. A belief can be something common or something specific or something that might not have been true. It is imperative that your beliefs have a truth value.5 What I mean by this is that they are adequate of being true or false. We can always believe in what we want but sometimes what we are misguided because even though some of our beliefs are true some are false. At same time we are attempting to gain knowledge, we don’t always receive true beliefs but we can believe in what ever we think is true.6
Justification is related to knowledge, truth an belief. It is related because justification is the reason why someone keeps a belief , the clarification to why the belief they hold is true rather then untrue, or according to what one knows best.7 We use justification in philosophy to make sure something is true and not false. What I mean by this is that a belief must have a reason to be believed outside of the limits of your own thoughts because a lot of people come forth with things they believe in but never think about having reasons to back them