chapter "Knowledge, Error, and Probable Opinion"

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"Knowledge, Error, and Probable Opinion" is a chapter in Bertrand Russell's philosophical work The Problems of Philosophy that examines the nature and limits of human knowledge, the possibility of error, and the role of probability in our beliefs.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book chapter
philosophical text
aimsTo analyze the possibility of error in human cognition
clarify what can be known with certainty
distinguish knowledge from probable opinion
author Bertrand Russell
concerns conditions under which beliefs count as knowledge
epistemic limits of human cognition
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
discusses criteria for knowledge
degrees of belief
distinction between knowledge and opinion
epistemic justification
fallibility of human beliefs
probable knowledge
relation between truth and belief
role of evidence in belief
skepticism about certainty
genre epistemology
philosophy
hasAuthorRole Bertrand Russell as epistemologist
hasForm prose exposition
hasInfluenceOn introductory epistemology education
includedIn early 20th-century epistemology canon
isChapterOf a work first published in 1912
language English
mainTopic certainty and uncertainty
justification of belief
limits of human knowledge
nature of knowledge
possibility of error in belief
probability in epistemology
probable opinion
partOf "The Problems of Philosophy"
philosophicalDiscipline theory of knowledge
philosophicalPositionDiscussed fallibilism
probabilism in belief
relatedWork "The Problems of Philosophy"
targetAudience general educated readers
students of philosophy
workIn analytic philosophy tradition
workType non-fiction

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
The Problems of Philosophy
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