Spoonseeking

One thing that always "gets my goat" to use a southern colloquialism, is when someone tells me that they "know" something that we are debating (you know who you are). I never really had a good understanding of why this is until I recently took a class in apologetics taught by Dr. Greg Bahnsen. Knowledge, according to Dr. Bahnsen, requires three things. Belief. To know something, one must first believe it to be true. This should not really be surprising or debatable. Basis. To know something, one must have a reasonable justification for the belief. The belief you have must not be based on invalid data or invalid or arbitrary reasoning. Truth. To really know something, that thing that you know has to be true. The thing known must accurately represent the truth of the situation. I really like this definition. It covers bases that the typical use of knowledge misses. An example he used was a man looking at a clock on the wall, for an instant. The clock says 3