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elements
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data as a named set of data objects
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limitations of formalism
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handling complexity
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what is truth
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skepticism about knowledge
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private language argument for skepticism about meaning
Reference
Plato, Theaetetus, c.a., 368 B.C.. Google
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page numbers from "Knowledge as justified true belief", p. 297-308, Cahn, S.M., Kitcher, P., Sher, G. (eds.), Reason at work: introductory readings in philosophy, Second edition, Fort Worth Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1990, 1984; from the F.M. Cornfield translation, Plato's Theory of Knowledge, the Theaetetus and Sophist, London: Routledge and Kegan-Paul 1935.
298 ;;Quote: elements have only a name; combine names into descriptions of complex things
298+;;Quote: elements are unknowable; while complexes are knowable and explicable via written letters
299 ;;Quote: if complexes are knowable then one knows the syllable SO but not the letters S and O; this is absurd
303 ;;Quote: knowledge of the elements in a complex is clearer and more effective than knowing the complex without knowing its elements
307 ;;Quote: ultimately, nothing can be said about the nature of knowledge
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Topic: what is truth (66 items)
Topic: skepticism about knowledge (34 items)
Topic: private language argument for skepticism about meaning (33 items)