Lesley asked:

How do we know where we were born?

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I must be missing something about this question. Isn't the usual answer that we learn where we were
born from people who were there at the time? Like our mothers?

Ken Stern

Knowledge is often described as justified true belief. It cannot be the case that we have knowledge of
where we were born directly from our senses as we were non-conscious beings at that point.
However we have other reliable ways to determine the issue. For example if I were to ask my parents
were I was born and they were typically truthful then that would provide justification for my belief,
assuming there answer was true I would KNOW where I was born. To add corroboration I could
check other sources which are conducive to truth, my birth certificate, or hospital records for example.
In this way you could know where you were born.

The issue I think is that if you define knowledge as infallible true belief then we can't know where we
were born as it is always possible that you are being deceived, however if all we need is justified true
belief then you can know.

Mike Lee