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Socrates vs. Descartes

Socrates defines knowledge as justified true belief. Socrates believes that you only have knowledge if you believe things for the right reasons, and not for reasons that cannot be explained. Socrates says that juries cannot have knowledge because they do not have first hand experience of the incident, whatever it may be. Juries are only forming an opinion based on what the lawyers are saying in their testimony. Descartes believes that kno...

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