If I Truly Believe a Thing, Do I also Know It?

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Nearly everyone who cares about such things seems to know that Socrates claims not to know anything of value. However, one of the things that he claims that he does know is that true belief and knowledge are two different things: “I certainly do not think I am guessing that right opinion is a different thing from knowledge. If I claim to know anything else– and I would make that claim about few things– I…