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by nirse 1095 days ago
In philosophy, the most common definition of knowledge is that it is true, justified belief[1]. In that definition knowledge certainly is predicated to be correct.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis

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So is an argument that an LLM has no knowledge because it can't reason about justification of it's replies? I could see that. A lot of justification is just "because I read it in a book I trust" or "heard it from an authority" which isn't all that dissimilar to an LLM's outcome. An LLMs response is also justified by it's training, not unlike a person in a position of authority.

It doesn't challenge the idea that both a religious believer and non-believer have a certain knowledge of the world. These kinds of conflicts of knowledge are common, not just in religion, there is no single understanding of the world to reference against.