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Knowledge: From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia For Other Uses, See - Part of A Series On
Knowledge: From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia For Other Uses, See - Part of A Series On
Core concepts
• Belief
• Justification
• Knowledge
• Truth
Distinctions
Schools of thought
• Empiricism
• Naturalism
• Pragmatism
• Rationalism
• Relativism
• Skepticism
• Certainty
• Coherentism
• Contextualism
• Dogmatism
• Experience
• Fallibilism
• Foundationalism
• Induction
• Infallibilism
• Infinitism
• Perspectivism
• Rationality
• Reason
• Solipsism
• Applied epistemology
• Evolutionary epistemology
• Feminist epistemology
• Formal epistemology
• Metaepistemology
• Social epistemology
Notable epistemologists
• René Descartes
• Sextus Empiricus
• Edmund Gettier
• David Hume
• Immanuel Kant
• W. V. O. Quine
• more...
Related fields
• Epistemic logic
• Philosophy of mind
• Philosophy of perception
• Philosophy of science
• Probability
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The term "knowledge" can refer to a theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. It can
be implicit (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical
understanding of a subject); formal or informal; systematic or particular.[1] The philosopher
Plato argued that there was a distinction between knowledge and true belief in the Theaetetus,
leading many to attribute to him a definition of knowledge as "justified true belief".[2][3] The
difficulties with this definition raised by