Sentence examples for greater value of knowledge from inspiring English sources

This is because justified true belief is a proper subset of knowledge on our present suppositions, and thus the greater value of knowledge over mere true belief would not translate into a greater value of knowledge over any proper subset of its parts, including justified true belief.

In particular, the claim was that reliabilism was unable even to offer an answer to the primary value problem (at least assuming that it is the reliability condition, and not the anti-Gettier condition, which is accounting for the greater value of knowledge over mere true belief).

That is, it seems that if this is a bona fide problem then it will affect any account of the value of knowledge which has the same relevant features as reliabilism i.e., which regards the greater value of knowledge over true belief as instrumental value, where the instrumental value in question is relative to the valuable good of true belief.

If this last point is right, then one might reasonably argue that the fact that knowledge entails justification offers a way of dealing with the primary value problem, since there would now be a property of knowledge which mere true belief lacks and which affords greater value to knowledge over mere true belief.

Indeed, it is worth noting that line of response to the Meno problem sketched by Plato which we noted above seems to specifically appeal to the greater practical instrumental value of knowledge over mere true belief.

She argues that Kvanvig's claim that understanding is of greater value than knowledge is only achieved because he fails to give a rich enough account of knowledge.

So provided that we are consistent in our comparisons of objectual and propositional understanding on the one hand, and objectual and propositional knowledge on the other, Kvanvig fails to make a sound case for thinking that understanding is of greater value than knowledge.

The recent Ebola crisis with its footprint in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone highlights the great value of well-trained medical professionals equipped with the knowledge and resources to combat communicable disease.

This shouldn't be surprising; the great value of oil is in the commodity itself, not in the knowledge or service or craftmanship of the barrel.

The great value of bees as pollinators has been known for many years, but unfortunately, this knowledge is not widely appreciated and understood.

…places greater value on local knowledge, local ownership, vulnerability and capacity assessments, and on participatory methods.