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Chapter one introduces the epistemology of Plato‘s by discussing the jury’s problem from The Theaetetus. Plato gives us two kinds of reason that true belief can not amount to knowledge. One shows that apart from persuasion there may be a way of conveying beliefs that could amount to knowledge, while the second point suggests that no way of conveying beliefs could amount to knowledge since knowledge requires that you acquire the relevant belief for yourself. The two points seem to conflict with each other, but the stress in this dialogue is clearing away only accounts of knowledge that Plato took to be mistaken rather than making his own philosophical claims.
The jury passage in The Theaetetus provides an introduction of Plato’s way of writing. Plato is intensely concerned with both argument and bold ideas, writing in a way which involves us in argument with him. The author says in the end that this introduction aims to introduce us to engagement with Plato.
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