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Plantinga defines "knowledge" as
{ 1 } - a true belief that comes from the proper functioning of our mental capacities.
{ 2 } - a true belief that can be proved to all or nearly all rational beings.
{ 3 } - what our peers let us get away with saying.
{ 4 } - a true belief strongly based on sense experience or self-evident truths.
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Plantinga defines "knowledge" as
{ 1 } - a true belief that comes from the proper functioning of our mental capacities.
{ 2 } - a true belief that can be proved to all or nearly all rational beings.
{ 3 } - what our peers let us get away with saying.
{ 4 } - a true belief strongly based on sense experience or self-evident truths.
Plantinga thinks God designed our thinking capacities to work in a certain way, which is thus the "correct" or "proper" way for them to work. So God gave us a natural tendency to respond to certain experiences by believing in other persons, the past, and the external world. And he gave us a natural tendency to respond to the beauty and order of nature by coming to believe in him. We have "knowledge" when we have a true belief that comes from our mental capacities functioning in the proper way -- in the way God intended.
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Plantinga defines "knowledge" as
{ 1 } - a true belief that comes from the proper functioning of our mental capacities.
{ 2 } - a true belief that can be proved to all or nearly all rational beings.
{ 3 } - what our peers let us get away with saying.
{ 4 } - a true belief strongly based on sense experience or self-evident truths.
The point of Plantinga's article is to reject this idea -- and to show that sometimes we can know something but not be able to convince others.
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Plantinga defines "knowledge" as
{ 1 } - a true belief that comes from the proper functioning of our mental capacities.
{ 2 } - a true belief that can be proved to all or nearly all rational beings.
{ 3 } - what our peers let us get away with saying.
{ 4 } - a true belief strongly based on sense experience or self-evident truths.
This is Rorty's view, which Plantinga rejects.
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Plantinga defines "knowledge" as
{ 1 } - a true belief that comes from the proper functioning of our mental capacities.
{ 2 } - a true belief that can be proved to all or nearly all rational beings.
{ 3 } - what our peers let us get away with saying.
{ 4 } - a true belief strongly based on sense experience or self-evident truths.
This is classical foundationalism, which Plantinga rejects.
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