1. True Believers
... action than knowledge. It should be noted that in this passage, true opinion is the same as true belief. (Meno, 85) Socrates invokes the example of a man providing others with directions to the city of Larissa. He contends that a man with a true belief of the route will be just as effective in guiding others as a man who has taken this route ... through the canyon. In this instance, the man with the true belief (and lacking direct knowledge of the route) would recommend the original path and end up misguiding those asking directions. Clearly, if he had functional knowledge of the route,...
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