Discuss the claim that knowledge falls short of being justified at best probable and therefore we cease to try to understand the world? (50 Marks)

I've covered

Plato's Objectivism: Forms

Contingencies

Philosophy of Science with Thomas Kuhn theory of "Paradigm Shift"

Edmund Gettier's: Tripartite of Knowledge (and the problems with it)

Want to know are their any philosophical arguments to prove or falsify the question.

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You should try both with Schopenhauer's tesis and Nietzsche's.

I am afraid my english skills are not good enough nor my free time is enough to try to write them down. It should suffice to say that Schopen (as I like to call him) says that rationality is a flawed tool of will, and that the most perfect form of knowledge is art, the flawed but yet most perfect than science form of knowledge that let us glimpse the essence of the world: Will.

Beyond good and evil (Nietzsche) talks about truth. Awesome read!

That is the text we'll have to cover for our final exam.

Thanks for the advice, don't worry your english is amazing.

Lucky for you I have a degree in Philsophy. You want to discuss Hume's rejection of a Necessary Being, and the problem of induction. You also wanted to discuss the K-K thesis, not in depth but at least give an overview of how we know that we know. Formulate the question as following: How can there be knowledge a priori?

Have you addressed Kant's a priori cognition? I know its a very technical theory but you may want to read up on it and discuss how reality can never be objectively known because the prism of knowledge redirects and filters direct sensory experience. However, for extra points you can probably add Sartre's counterpoint that the implicit consciousness perceives sensory data before we are consciously aware of it. This has been confirmed in cognitive psychology.

You may also want to address Cartesian reality

You can go about it from an Eastern perspective too, Hindu philosophy is pretty big on illusions, "maya", and the limits of perception.

And perhaps some form of Post-modern epistemology?

Good idea!

Christ, you could have left out the number of marks and made it a *little* less obvious.

Anyway, tell me, what made you think that this was an appropriate website for getting help with your homework? There's occasionally a pseudo-intellectual discussion about politics in which teenagers try to sound smart by spouting clichés, but you're not going to get any decent help on this. Then again, you're not going to get any decent help on any internet forum.

But I suppose it doesn't matter. If VGchartz does your homework for you, you'll get the mark you deserve.

Descartes cogito would be a good point for justifiable knowledge