ABSTRACT
Plato’s epistemology centres around something that he calls epistêmê, often translated as ‘knowledge’. Is Plato really talking about knowledge, or something quite different? This chapter proposes that we answer the question by looking to what Plato takes to be axiomatic and uncontroversial about epistêmê – that it is unerring cognition of what is – and suggests that the differences between his views about epistêmê and modern views about knowledge stem from different ways of developing this core notion.
