Explain.Are all statements considered knowledge also true?
Hi..
I think not 'all' statements considered knowledge as true.
Though it may still depend upon on what kind of specification of statement there is.
That implies some truth in knowledge through statements..
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As then, according to Karl Popper a great Philosopher in 20th century..
Whereas statement and knowledge as truth related, how then can one be certain of the right thing in questioning? We can not have absolute certainty but repeated tests usually show where the trouble lies. Even 'observation statements', that Popper maintains are fallible and science in his view is not a quest for certain knowledge, but an evolutionary process in which hypothesis or conjecture are imaginatively proposed and tested in order to explain facts or to solve problems.
Popper emphasizes both the importance of questioning the background knowledge when the need arises and the significance of the fact that 'observation statements' are theory laden, and hence fallible, for while falsifiability is simple as a logical principle, in practice it is exceedingly complicated as no single observation can ever be taken to falsify a theory, for thereis always the possibility (a) That the observation itself is mistaken, or (b) That the assumed background knowledge is faulty or defective.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper…
To support the answer according the question above as stated as 'all statements' considering knowledge also true.
Assuming that 'theories' are also still questionable as true in knowledge.
Good day to you! HuGs!Are all statements considered knowledge also true?
A statement considered to be knowledge is saying something about something, in other words, it is stating a relationship to some part of reality. This is known as the Correspondence Theory of Truth, which Plato and Aristotle agreed on (surprisingly!)
';“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true” is the way Aristotle put it. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-…
What is ';known'; today may be proved incorrect tomorrow; but as long as it is accepted as what is known, it cannot be other than true. To paraphrase Aristotle: ';To say of a thing that is that it is false, is false.';
Falsifiable statements (which if supported by massive evidence are ';considered'; knowledge by most scientists) are sometimes falsified. They turn out not to be true.
Newton's presentation in Principia about how gravity acts on Mercury and when it should reach perihelion was the plain truth for centuries. Then, Einstein knock it down -- showed it wasn't true, presented the Special Theory of Relativity, which was a better truth, and predicted the perihelion of Mercury correctly.
';Truth'; is science sometimes gets falsified.
That never happens in mathematics, except stupid mathematics, like primitive cultures who think that pi is 3 (this includes all farmers, even today).
It sometimes happens in Ethics. Aristotle gave a highly plausible argument for the ethical acceptability of slavery (the Natural Slave argument).
Jefferson and Lincoln knocked that argument into a ******, three cornered hat.
Took awhile, but in a post enlightenment world, most civilized people see the Somalians and the Saudis as savages because they hold people in slavery.
In a millenium or two this may go back the other way, and ';enlightened'; people will be seen as naive and improvident chumps who did not understand the essential role that slaves play in society -- see also Brave New World -- the Delta Minuses -- quasi human organisms created to be servile slaves by simply putting a bit of ethanol in their womb/incubation-bottle. In many neighborhoods expectant mothers do the same, except they do it in vivo instead of in vitro.
Short answer: No. ';All'; is a big word. You ask a logician a question with ';all'; in it, you are likely to get ';no'; as your answer. Exceptions are always out there. They don't abound, or they wouldn't be exceptions, but they kill the ';yes'; answer option if a Mentat is your source.
No. knowledge is the product or result of a process. Being true or false is a state attributed to something. That being said, a statement alone cannot be considered knowledge. That is like saying a brick can also be the whole wall. I might just be full of crap too.
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