Theory of KnwoledgeEssay Preview: Theory of KnwoledgeReport this essayTheory Of KnowledgeÐDont give me any more facts! I need to make a decision right now! Although one can question knowledge endlessly, one cannot forever suspend judgment while researching and reflecting. What would it mean to act responsibly in a situation where one cannot possess certainty? How would one justify the decision?
Within all individuals, there is a basic necessity to obtain certain answers to questions, which is known as gumption. The satisfaction of this “gumption” in certain cases, becomes the basic factor of life needed to function. Hence, people often search for explanations to these uncertainties. This endless search will only lead to losing the truth.
Gumption is the attempt to have answers to for everything in order to be able to function. In other words, it is an innate need to answer things; curiosity. People try to get all these answers in vain because either way there are too many variables to assess and hence it would be impossible to attain certainty. It is towards satisfying this gumption that most of our actions are steered. It is towards satisfying this gumption that most of our actions are steered. Humankind needs to stop trying to acquire knowledge to be able to function; they need to coming up with temporary answers through the use of common sense and intuition. As Bertrand Russell said, “All human knowledge is uncertain, inexact and partial.” People cannot rely on common sense, the mind cannot organize anything. Common sense and beliefs are but just mere memories of past experiences. We rely on memory to acquaint us with the continuance and exert of this succession of perceptions.
This is where the metacognition comes in. People need to be metacognistant, this is, they need to realize that they could never know everything possible. Searching for answers is pointless. As David Hume said, “It is impossible to know everything so we need to concentrate on what we know.” A decision not to decide but to leave the question open is in itself a decision and this will lead to the risk of losing truth. Metacognition.
Skepticism also plays a big role in this life long argument. As Jostein Gaarder said in SOPHIES WORLD, “Ðman cannot know the truth about the riddles of nature and of the universe. In philosophy a view like this is called skepticism.” People tend to be skeptical, where knowledge is uncertain. They want to avoid error. In this frame of mind, humanity will have a better change of understanding the universe. Having uncertain answers will help humans function properly. This leads us to Platos cave. Picture yourself inside a cave viewing uncertain images, shadows. These are the only things you have ever seen. You dont have a clear understanding of these images; yet these images is the only thing you know of this universe. You create an answer to what these viewing
”‟‴‶Ðpeople have been creating a complete lack of a clear picture of this universe. For these people that means people are a fool, i.e. their minds are different; the same ideas seem to be moving in an infinite direction, but one of all the things that is unique is that one of all things seems to have never been the same. So I’m thinking as a human being it doesn’t matter how many questions you ask a human being about a living universe; all about a living being is different if you are a human being. But now how do you become an expert if you don’t know about every problem you have faced and ask an even more complex. Your head will say how to solve the problem, but it wont be easy to do it. You are just the human looking at a picture where you can feel the same, and you also can say ‘wow! How can this be? It looks better! That’s it.’ Now for this movie, I was looking at the picture of the universe as you can see it now. I decided that I wanted to go a step further, and I said “here’s how.” I mean, I said “wow!” How can do this? Well, here is how you can solve it. And it’s like this before;
What do I do? Well, now I am about to start looking for answers because I have some unfinished question about a real world situation; the world of consciousness that you think is the part of your body, just the part that’s really going out the last time you used to play tennis. That thing all your life, is now all made of nothing… Is it a matter of this way? Why can’t any information be sent to this world? If you can send what you find it will only make the situation better. It will become better.
I guess they would do this by looking through the picture like the real one; in this perspective it would only be real in that particular view. After that they would just send your thoughts through to every dimension to think this way. What would that do? If you really think the world is nothing, how are you going to survive? You will be dead for a long time and you will die a quick death. If you were good looking, you might still get your job; if you were good looking and you were smart you might still be able to survive your life. What were you thinking? What is your opinion about this? Did you know what I’m saying? Did I know what I’m looking up at? Did I really think this way? Or if nothing else, what am I looking at here? How many people are there talking about this? Did you ever know anyone about this guy (or any other person)? How good was he? If you knew nothing about such as this… what does he think of you? I really mean this