What is the difference between knowledge and belief? A comparison between knowledge and belief.

1. What is the difference between
knowledge and belief?
ROSE AUNAETITRAKUL
EMILIO SOLOMON
ZAINAB YAQUB

2. What is knowledge?
 “Justified true belief”
 Ways of Knowing (WoK)
 Emotion
 Reason
 Perception
 Language
 Plato’s Theory of
Knowledge
 K= JTB
 J= Justifiable
 T= Truth
 B= Belief

3. What is truth?
 Distinguishes knowledge from belief
 Objective requirement for knowledge
 “If you believe something is true, does not make it
true.”

4. Second-Hand Knowledge
 Cultural Tradition
 School
 The internet
 Expert Opinion
 The news media

5. Limitations of Knowledge
 Commonsense
 Example: The mental
map
 Relativism
 Example: Culture
 Certainty
 Example: The belief-
knowledge continuum

6. What is belief?
 Subjective requirement for knowledge
 Belief-Knowledge Continuum

7. Kinds of Belief
 A vague belief
 Example: Eating fish helps you concentrate
 A well-supported belief
 Example: I believe that my teacher gave me too much
homework because it took me five hours to finish it all.
 A belief that is beyond reasonable doubt
 Example: On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center
collapsed.

8. How is belief justified?
 “Someone told me”
 “I saw it”
 “I worked it out”
 “It’s intuitively obvious”

9. Limitations of Belief
 The role of judgment
 Example: “The real world”
 The danger of gullibility
 Example: Yahoo! Articles,
eHow.com, Stanley Milgram
Experiment
 The danger of skepticism
 Example: Science/Theories