The Mouse who ate the cheese

        At the same time, Alice also noticed the cheese fall to the floor, but she got distracted, trying to recall who the handsome young man was that she didn’t see the mouse come out of the cupboard. When she looked down to the floor again, the piece of cheese had disappeared. She thought through the situation and came to the conclusion that a mouse must have snuck out from under the cupboard and taken the cheese. Alice used logic to gain the exact same piece of knowledge. (Her logical thinking of the mouse from under the cupboard had taken the cheese). Alice’s “knowing” is from her own logic.

        “She was much too level-headed to think that she knew that a mouse had eaten the cheese” Alice only imagined that a mouse had snuck out and ate the cheese but this is just her belief of the situation, she cannot be positive, so therefore she cannot know that a mouse really ate the piece of cheese.

        After Bill told his 3 buds that he saw a mouse eat a piece of cheese not too long ago, 2 out of 3 believed him. Virginia and Adrian both accepted Bill’s fact that a mouse ate the cheese and his evidence was reliable enough for them to believe it. In order to know something, you must believe it. Virginia and Adrian’s “knowing” is from authority with Bill being their authority. His third friend George, the owner of the flat couldn’t believe Bill’s fact because he knew that his flat was clear of mice since he has the best firm of pest extermination come in and check it over regularly. But George doesn’t know or believed that the mouse ate the cheese because he’s convinced that his flat was mice free. George’s “knowing” is from his own introspection/self-awareness.

So in the end, with great anger, George never did know that the mouse ate the cheese. Alice believed that a mouse must’ve eaten the cheese but still she doesn’t know it for real. Bill, Virginia and Adrian were the only three people who knew that the mouse ate the cheese.