Ep 125: Livestreams 1, 2 & 3
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What Is Justified True Belief?
In mathematics, you start off with the axioms and then you can justify as true Pythagoras's theorem. We don't need to be justified or probably justified in our beliefs because we just need to solve our problems - so knowledge is information that solves a problem. Newtonian gravity didn't need to been believed but it still counts as knowledge. But you're not justified in thinking it true because it's not true. It's been refuted. But it'll solve a problem. This search for justifications is always going to produce or always going to contain possible sources of error.
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