Re: [Mind's Eye] philosophical teaser

Belief is unchangeable and knowledge changes with research and new
evidence. For example , my belief that God is sitting on a cloud will
stick in the face of evidence to the contrary , unless of course my
mentor changes my belief. But knowledge that God is sitting on a cloud
changes on new research and evidence ---God is up there in yau-calabi
space -- God is intrinsically in everything and doesn't need space to
exist in.
Belief is faith and knowledge is understanding.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:08 AM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:
> The question why knowledge is distinctively valuable has an important
> historical precedent in Plato's Meno in which Socrates raises the
> question of why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief.
> Initially, we might appeal to the fact that knowledge appears to be of
> more practical use than true belief in order to mark this difference
> in value, but, as Socrates notes, this claim is far from obvious on
> closer inspection. After all, a true belief about the correct way to
> Larissa is surely of just as much practical use as knowledge of the
> way to Larissa—both will get us to our destination. Given that we
> clearly do value knowledge more than mere true belief, the fact that
> there is no obvious explanation of why this should be so creates a
> problem. We will call the issue of why knowledge is more valuable than
> mere true belief, the Meno problem.
>
> You can get the rest here - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-value/
>
> I somehow doubt I will be causing much mouse clicking in posting the
> link! I did some work on knowledge justification and value whilst
> bored out of my tree, recovering from a serious injury.  I was
> discovering most of academic study is 'witterpiss for wuckfits' at the
> time.  There's a big snag in the Meno problem in that it restricts us
> to argument not much informed by science.  We could sit down all day
> trying to define knowledge, which might be nice under the Greek sun
> with some Rakis, local beer and imported coffee.  No one has defined
> knowledge - rather as we don't have a precise decimal for pi.  There
> are, of course, many definitions.
>
> There are lots of teasers like this in philosophy.  My take on this
> is :
> 1.there are some things I believe true and have tested scientifically
> or in mathematical proof - these I trust as knowledge
> 2. there are some things I think true and can't do the above with.
> 3. etc. etc. on what I consider reliable or barking.
>
> we worry too much about this kind of stuff and not enough about the
> issues of the condition of ignorance.