Truth and Knowledge in Everyday Life

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Kinds of Knowledge

Knowledge-That: a propositional knowledge that can be represented through languages (ex:math), and declarative knowledge (stored in memory)

Knowledge by Acquaintance: is obtained through a direct interaction (experience) through other people

Knowledge - How: the means of knowing how to accomplish something. This includes skills and abilities.

Knowledge - Wh: involves the questions whether, who, what, why, and also propositional knowledge

Epistemology: Truth and Knowledge in Everyday Life

Consistency

Example 2: Gravity. (This seems far fetched but...) The theory of gravity hasn't been 100% proved yet and a very little amount of people actually fully know how gravity works. Despite all of this most of us believe gravity fully exists and functions in our lives.

Example 1: The bible is an example of the consistency truth. Nobody alive currently has actually witnessed any stories that happened in the bible and most of them happened over 1900+ years ago. Nobody has seen these events but because of public perception and everyone else believing, the religion still has many followers. Technically this would be considered knowledge by acquaintance because all of the stories were passed down and eventually the bible was made.

Pragmatism

Example 2: The moon. People have actually stepped foot on the moon therefore I don;t believe that the moon is real, I know that the moon is real due to that evidence.

Example 1: All of math. Math can never be wrong and is always right, and it can always be proven, therefore there is only one correct answer and all of the rest are false.

Correspondence

Example 2: A dog is loose outside. This statement would be true if there was actually a loose dog outside. otherwise, it is false.

Example 1: it is raining outside of my house. This statement is only true when it is actually raining outside of my house. Saying this statement while it is not raining, will obviously make this a false statement.