{"id":2709,"date":"2022-04-05T21:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/introtophilosophy\/part\/chapter-4-epistemology-2\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:17:50","slug":"chapter-4-epistemology-2","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/introtophilosophy\/part\/chapter-4-epistemology-2\/","title":{"raw":"CHAPTER FOUR: Epistemology","rendered":"CHAPTER FOUR: Epistemology"},"content":{"raw":"<div>\r\n\r\nImagine you are on your favorite social media site and you see that someone you follow has shared an article or a video that makes certain claims that are rather astonishing. Your friend has reacted strongly to this posting and you are tempted to do the same.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-align: initial; font-size: 1em;\">But wait...is it true? Is the information genuine, or is the source simply trying to get a reaction out of people?\u00a0 As a philosopher, you will want to ask certain questions before you react or repost.\u00a0 Is this source credible?\u00a0 Are there alternative ways to understand the same information?\u00a0 What were the motives of the original poster?\u00a0 Am I being ethical if I reshare this information?\u00a0 How can we know for sure if this is true?\u00a0 <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial; font-size: 1em;\">Knowledge is a tricky business. How often have you believed something to be the case only to learn later that you were mistaken? What caused you to change your mind, to rethink your knowledge?\u00a0 What kinds of arguments or evidence compelled you to reconsider?\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"text-align: initial; font-size: 1em;\">In this chapter, we will explore different philosophical approaches to knowledge and how we come to understand what we believe.\u00a0 Epistemology comes from the Greek word for certainty, <\/span><strong><em style=\"text-align: initial; font-size: 1em;\">episteme<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial; font-size: 1em;\">.\u00a0 We will see that although the goal of certainty, of truth, may be difficult to reach, philosophers generally all understand that it is important to try to get there.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div>\n<p>Imagine you are on your favorite social media site and you see that someone you follow has shared an article or a video that makes certain claims that are rather astonishing. 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