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Chisholm’s Criterion Chisholm’s Criterion to me is probably one of the most significant and hardest problems of philosophy. The questions under his criterion are general and important to understand. Chisholm starts his explanation on trying to answer if what we know is really correct. On top of this question though he finds that if we know things there must be a way or steps to prove that we know them. He uses examples of appearances to understand this, but it only leads back and forth with no answer. As well the use of actual objects is used so that our senses are telling us what is happening, which make things more believable to us. Again though the conclusion goes in circles because how do we know about these objects. So in the end Chisholm came up with these questions “ What do we know? What are the criteria of knowledge?”(text 161). These questions are paired together where as the answer to one may help you lead to the other. So if we know for example what is a lie and what is the truth than we might be able to explain to someone how to tell the difference. Though if you don’t know the extent of your knowledge then it will be quite difficult to answer what the criteria is of knowledge. On the other spectrum