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It has been a long time since I read any epistemology but it seems to me that knowledge is awareness of truth. But truth is hard to come by because it is not always the same as belief. It seems to me that mathematical truth is the closest we can get to objective truth.
Most other things that are studies are not really knowledge so much as they are theories, opinions, and beliefs. That is especially truth with theology. We can study and know all the "isms" and I have a lot of respect who know the "isms" and can critically evaluate them but they really are not knowledge. They may be the study of ...society, the psyche, life, etc but unless we are describing an observation, we get into theory. So i should have done a little home work, there ia a posteriori knowledge, and a priori which I think is really inference. Sorry. I need to do some reading on this. And even then it is 'theories" of knowing.
I gues in this world of alternate facts and fake news I am tired of opinions, theories and a little like Descartes, want too get to the fundamentals of what we can know and not just choose to believe.
Most other things that are studies are not really knowledge so much as they are theories, opinions, and beliefs. That is especially truth with theology. We can study and know all the "isms" and I have a lot of respect who know the "isms" and can critically evaluate them but they really are not knowledge. They may be the study of ...society, the psyche, life, etc but unless we are describing an observation, we get into theory. So i should have done a little home work, there ia a posteriori knowledge, and a priori which I think is really inference. Sorry. I need to do some reading on this. And even then it is 'theories" of knowing.
I gues in this world of alternate facts and fake news I am tired of opinions, theories and a little like Descartes, want too get to the fundamentals of what we can know and not just choose to believe.