Raphael’s School At Athens (Please read On the Nature of Truth and Reality first if you haven’t already.) What is knowledge, and how do we justify it? In The Theaetetus, Plato records a dialogue between Socrates and Theaetetus regarding the nature of knowledge. Socrates, just before his death, suggests three ideas: Knowledge is nothing but perception. This idea,…

Is there an objective nature or reality? Or is it subjective, dependent upon our perception of it? Such are the questions that fill sophomoric philosophy class essays. I will make no argument here other than to say that there is an objective reality. Anyone who says that there isn’t makes a statement that is incompatible…