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I stumbled over this Venn Diagram that represents the classical definition of knowledge and relates it to the concepts of truth and beliefs. It’s a diagram worth thinking about as it may help allow ideas to connect and fall in the right places. Read More »
The morning is half-gone, and I’m staring at the blank wall of my computer screen. If Plato were right and we are prisoners in a cave, what I would do to unchain myself and step out into the light! There in the sun, I would behold the things as they are, and not just the blurry shadows they cast. Read More »
Looking for a way out of Plato's cave
In the Republic, Plato uses his famous metaphor of a cave to discuss knowing about knowing–in a word, epistemologies. According to him, people are ordinarily chained inside the cave so that all they can see are the shadows cast before them and they therefore mistake these for the very source of the shadows–i.e., the “real” objects outside the cave. Only when people emerge out of the cave do they realize that what they’ve watched all their lives are nothing but shadows. Read More »
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