Epistemological Idiots

Here Plato engages with the concept of ‘knowledge’ and ‘understanding’ as in many other dialogues, but Theaetetus is often hailed as ‘Plato’s most sustained study of epistemology,’ and is a deep investigation into the question ‘What is knowledge?’ As such, it is the foundin

… wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

As I slowly make my way through Plato’s works, this dialogue stands out for being by far the most technical. Plato discusses a question that has dogged every philosopher from antiquity to modern times: What is knowledge? H

I can appreciate the genius of Plato but I disagree with the belief that all things can be reasoned out without the use of empirical knowledge. Rationalism is flawed in a way because (most) humans have poor memories, many of our ideas are warped by our biases, therefore our pre-sense reasoning can o

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