This document discusses the differences between knowledge and belief. It defines knowledge as justified true belief, involving ways of knowing such as reason, perception, and language. Knowledge requires truth and justification to distinguish it from belief. Belief is more subjective and exists on a continuum with knowledge. While knowledge requires justification and truth, belief can involve degrees of certainty and be influenced by judgment, tradition, and other subjective factors.

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
 Certainty
 Example: The belief-knowledge continuum
 Commonsense
 Example: The mental map
 Relativism
 Example: Culture

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