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PHILOSOPHY – Epistemology: The Value of Knowledge

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People tend to value knowledge; it’s better to know something than just to believe it, even if your belief is correct by pure luck. But why? What’s so great about knowledge? In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jeremy Fantl (University of Calgary) explains the so-called “Meno problem” – the problem of explaining why knowledge is distinctively valuable.

[Source: Wireless Philosophy You Tube channel]

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