Tuesday, September 2, 2008
You can sometimes be wrong about what you believe
To say that one can never be wrong about what they believe, to me, is naiive. It's saying that there is no room to be proven wrong by fact. If someone believed that 2 plus 2 equaled 5, they would be wrong, not matter how much they believed that they were right. You can't just assume something is a certain way without looking into the subject for content. After you have exausted all means of research, and have studied all parts of the subject matter then, and only then, can you make an informed decision of what you believe to be true.
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You're right. The topic of knowledge is one that we will discuss the next couple of weeks. What conditions have to be met before we can say that we "know" something? People typically think that they know more than they do. This is just as true today as it was 2,500 years ago during the time of Socrates.
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