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Plato discusses theories of knowledge throughout his famous dialogue, the Theaetetus.
He discusses many different ways of learning and attempts to define knowledge. Plato
does this through a conversation between a few characters: Socrates, the famous
philosopher; Theodorus, an aged friend and philosopher of Socr ....
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.... along the causal process
leading to belief.” Perception is not truth or belief, but it is an important (however, not
necessary) step to reaching them.
In Plato’s Theaetetus, the three characters in the conversation have a discussion on
perception and how it relates to the world. Plato recounts Socrates telling the young
Theaetetus how, contrary to his belief, perception is not knowledge. Perception is too
varied, Socrates says. He gives the example of a breeze blowing; one man can be made
cold from the wind, while the man next to him might no ....
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