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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Republic' and 'The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

2140	True belief without knowledge is like blind people on the right road [Plato]
	Full Idea: Don't people who have a correct belief but no knowledge strike you as exactly like blind people who happen to be taking the right road?
	From: Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 506c)
	A reaction: Good. I love the style of this. Most philosophical points can be made in one concise sentence, and it is only the industry of journals and academe that forces points to be extended so much.

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

22327	Knowledge from a drunken schoolteacher is from a reliable and unreliable process [Potter]
	Full Idea: Knowledge might result from a reliable and an unreliable process. ...Is something knowledge if you were told it by a drunken schoolteacher?
	From: Michael Potter (The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 [2020], 66 'Rel')
	A reaction: Nice example. The listener must decide which process to rely on. But how do you decide that, if not by assessing the likely truth of what you are being told? It could be a bad teacher who is inspired by drink.