Justified true belief held sway over philosophers, but it is also what most people would come up if you asked them and they thought about it for enough. People understand that knowledge is about having particular beliefs, that these beliefs have to be true and that people have beliefs that are true, but which they don’t actually know to be true (justified element). I bought this definition until I was exposed to the Gettier problem.
but it is also what most people would come up if you asked them and they thought about it for enough
There an easy way to check whether that might be true. Look at the producers of dictionaries.
Webster: information, understanding, or skill that you get from experience or education awareness of something : the state of being aware of something
Maybe the guys at that dictionary are an expection. Let’s look at the Cambridge dictionary: understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by people generally: the state of knowing about or being familiar with something
Studying philosophy mislead you. Neither of those definitions speaks about justification or truth.
I don’t think saying that knowledge is information that's due to experience of education is giving a synonym.
But even if someone defines a term via synonym they are still defining the term. It’s worthwhile to note that different people interact with language differently.
At the moment where you accept the framing of the question as the only way to look at the issue, you miss a lot of real world usage of the concept in question by people who don’t use the same framing as you do.
Justified true belief held sway over philosophers, but it is also what most people would come up if you asked them and they thought about it for enough. People understand that knowledge is about having particular beliefs, that these beliefs have to be true and that people have beliefs that are true, but which they don’t actually know to be true (justified element). I bought this definition until I was exposed to the Gettier problem.
There an easy way to check whether that might be true. Look at the producers of dictionaries. Webster:
information, understanding, or skill that you get from experience or education
awareness of something : the state of being aware of something
Maybe the guys at that dictionary are an expection. Let’s look at the Cambridge dictionary:
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by people generally:
the state of knowing about or being familiar with something
Studying philosophy mislead you. Neither of those definitions speaks about justification or truth.
They aren’t really defining it just using synonyms.
I don’t think saying that
knowledge
isinformation that's due to experience of education
is giving a synonym.But even if someone defines a term via synonym they are still defining the term. It’s worthwhile to note that different people interact with language differently.
At the moment where you accept the framing of the question as the only way to look at the issue, you miss a lot of real world usage of the concept in question by people who don’t use the same framing as you do.