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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9717940" data-attributes="member: 86653">The human brain has evolved to see faces and patterns as a survival trait. Far more likely there was a vague pattern in the mustard and the student's brain filled it in as a child's hand print. Similar to your story, I had a philosophy lecture where we talked about knowledge. The prof lead the talk but it was very much a conversation between him and the students. Asking questions, poking and prodding, etc. A Socratic dialogue in real time. The conclusion was that it's only knowledge if it's a Justified True Belief (JTB). Justified as in you have a reason to think that, it can't be a guess. True as in your thought has to match reality, it can't be false. Belief as in it's something you think it true, it can't be a lie. The prof then smiled and said, "Good. Here's the reading assignment." It was Plato's Theaetetus. The dialogue where Plato originally sets out JTB as a model. While no one in the class made the exact same arguments, there were some close calls and eerily similar takes. As a result, I've never forgotten that lecture.</blockquote>