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The first priority when answering any question, especially in philosophy and exams with limited time, is to look directly at what the question requires you to do, in the case of the example above, explain . ...

According to the tripartite view of knowledge, knowledge is equivalent to justified true belief. Formulaically, it is the view that S knows P if and only if: S believes PP is trueS is justified in believing ...

Thrasymachus outlines his ideas about justice and its influence. Rather than ground his theory in objective truths about justice or reasons for adhering to its boundaries, Thrasymachus states that justice is...

Moral cognitivists hold that when we make a moral judgment, such as ‘Lucy ought to pay back the money she borrowed’, we are stating a belief. The importance of this is that beliefs can be true or false: eith...

A priori knowledge is prior to sense experience (thus 'priori'). For example, even prior to actually going out into the world and doing experiments, one could simply close their eyes, think, and deduce that ...