Is Anything Real?

What is knowledge? - theoryofknowledge.net AC Grayling on knowledge The question of ‘what is knowledge’ is fundamental to TOK, but although you’ll see that oft-used definition ‘Justified true knowledge’, AC Grayling shows us that Plato’s words are far more meaningful when they are applied to the question ‘When is it the case that you know something?’ He tells us that three conditions need to be satisfied: First, that what you know is true. Bertrand Russell’s way of dividing up knowledge Drawing on the work by other philosophers, Bertrand Russell argued that knowledge fell into two categories: either knowledge by acquaintance, or, knowledge by description. Traditional epistemological way of viewing knowledge In university courses devoted to epistemology (which is anything to do with the nature of knowledge, and how we obtain it), knowledge is often divided up into knowing that and knowing how knowledge. The Empirical/Rational way of approaching knowledge Imagine this scenario (apologies for drawing on a hypothetical example!).