What is the justified true belief account of knowledge?

Why would anyone believe that justification, truth and believe were necessary for knowledge?What is the justified true belief account of knowledge?
Good question. Knowledge by itself does not make truth, any more than a cross and a willing sacrifice can provide the necessary Savior for our justification.What is the justified true belief account of knowledge?
Truth is verifiable only by identity with it, not by knowing about it.





True belief is secondary to verified truth, as it consists of an accurate account of knowing 'about' something. One knows/believes something which is true, though it has not been verified experientially. Knowing and knowing 'about' are quite different.





Thirdly, justification is simply reasoning according to a degree of ignorance. Without ignorance, there is no need for justification.





So, the experiential verification of Truth by identity with it requires no belief, because there is certainty. With certainty, there is no ignorance, so there need not be any justification.


So, from Truth down, things are self-evident.


From ignorance up, it's like a ladder, from oblivion, to ignorance, to knowing about, to true belief, and finally to the experiential account of identity with Truth, which negates all of the previous stages.





-Rob
Knowledge is what is known. Like the related concepts truth, belief, and wisdom, there is no single definition of knowledge on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of knowledge.





Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association, and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.
You have to keep in mind that words are defined by their use. We all use the word ';know'; constantly. ';I know what time it is?'; ';I know what you mean.'; ';I know how many cookies are left.'; etc.





It's not possible to know something that isn't true. You can believe something false, but you can't know something false. So at the very least, something has to be true before you can know it.





It also makes no sense to say, ';I know my cat is pregnant, but I don't believe my cat is pregnant.'; To believe something merely means to THINK that it's true. You can't know something if you don't even believe it. So belief is necessary for knowledge.





But not all beliefs are justified. It's possible to believe something that's true, and yet it isn't knowledge. For example, let's say somebody picks some lottery numbers and buys a ticket. For whatever reason, he becomes totally convinced that he's going to win. And the lo and behold, he wins! So we have both belief and truth, but it still doesn't seem like he actually KNEW he was going to win. The reason is because he had no justification. Justification is what connects belief to truth. You have to have some kind of justification so that your belief can correspond to reality (the truth).