Affiliation:
1. Philosophy Department , Ryerson University , 350 Victoria St , Toronto , Ontario M5B2K3 , Canada
Abstract
Abstract
The account of knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus, as true belief meta logou, seems to lead to a regress, which may be avoided by defining one kind of knowledge as true belief that rests on a different kind of knowledge. I explore a specific version of this move: to define knowledge as true belief that results from a successful and proper exercise of a rational capacity (a dunamis meta logou).
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy
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