Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• ahmad asgari ¹
• maedeh eslamloo ²

¹ philpsophy, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences,Shahid Beheshti University, tehran, iran

² philosophy, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, tehran, iran

Abstract

Abstract
Plato inquires falsity alongside knowledge and tries to explain the possibility of false belief. He thus suggests two explanations of false belief, one of which is on the basis of the dichotomy between knowing & not-knowing, and the other between being & not-being. Both ways, however, entails puzzles. Plato applies three solutions to solve the puzzles all of which fail. He thus intends to establish that relying merely on particulars as the objects of knowledge entails the impossibility of the explanation of false belief. Plato’s investigation of false belief in Theaetetus is the concern of this paper.
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Keywords

• Knowledge
• False belief
• Theaetetus
• Plato
• True belief