How do we know what we know? A conversation with my brother about the scientific method, knowledge, gnosis, and truth

05/07/2025 34 min
How do we know what we know? A conversation with my brother about the scientific method, knowledge, gnosis, and truth

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Aristotle and philosophers say that for something to be known, it must be true, must be believed, and must have evidence for it to be the case. The problem arises when trying to fulfill the evidence condition--what counts as evidence and how much evidence is enough. The scientific method can go only so far under the rules imposed by logic. Plato felt the evidence condition could never be met. Plato said that if one knows something to be the case, it must be inherent knowlege. In other words, it must be gnosis.