I'm in my first year of doing the International Backaloreat and in Theory of Knowledge we recently covered the idea of knowledge.
So the question is - what's knowledge?
asume you wake up at midnight and look at your watch - it sais it's midnight so you believe it. you now 'know' that it is midnight.
That is, asuming we take time for granted as being an existing principle that is in itself sensible etc...
you know it's midnight.
But now imagine you wake up the next night, at midnight. unknown to you your watch had stopped seconds after you looked at it last night - so it still sais that it's midnight but in this case it's just a coincidence that you happend to check it at exaclty midnight and thus find it correct.
Would you still call this knowledge?
the watch tells you the correct time and you believe it and your right - but it's for the wrong reasons. in this case - chance.
So can we still call it knowledge? or not? or what?
Any views?
ps; I didn't put this in debates or posers and puzzlers as it seems a bit too general for either. have fun guys.
Originally posted by padfootKnowledge is knowing where to find the answer.
I'm in my first year of doing the International Backaloreat and in Theory of Knowledge we recently covered the idea of knowledge.
So the question is - what's knowledge?
asume you wake up at midnight and look at your watch - it sais it's midnight so you believe it. you now 'know' that it is midnight.
That is, asuming we take time for granted as being ...[text shortened]... ebates or posers and puzzlers as it seems a bit too general for either. have fun guys.
Originally posted by padfoot
I'm in my first year of doing the International Backaloreat and in Theory of Knowledge we recently covered the idea of knowledge.
So the question is - what's knowledge?
asume you wake up at midnight and look at your watch - it sais it's midnight so you believe it. you now 'know' that it is midnight.
That is, asuming we take time for granted as being ebates or posers and puzzlers as it seems a bit too general for either. have fun guys.
Originally posted by padfootInteresting. I think as you pursue this idea you'll discover that what we call knowledge is a perceived view of what a person thinks is true. For example, it was perceived knowledge that the earth was flat, or that the sun and planets rotated around the earth.
I'm in my first year of doing the International Backaloreat and in Theory of Knowledge we recently covered the idea of knowledge.
So the question is - what's knowledge?
asume you wake up at midnight and look at your watch - it sais it's midnight so you believe it. you now 'know' that it is midnight.
That is, asuming we take time for granted as being ebates or posers and puzzlers as it seems a bit too general for either. have fun guys.
So when you talk about knowledge, you might want to define it as something like this: "Information which is perceived to be true."
Now that brings up another problem with knowledge. Note that it's not knowledge to me if you tell me that the sun rotates around the earth. It's perceived knowledge on your part. On the other hand, if I step on some broken glass and am injured then I am the sender and receiver of the knowledge that broken glass can injure me.
So the whole thing in a nutshell can be said that "knowledge is information which is accepted to be true by the person who acquires it."
Unfortunately, that means a lot of knowledge has nothing to do with truth.
Originally posted by padfootAh ha!
I'm in my first year of doing the International Backaloreat and in Theory of Knowledge we recently covered the idea of knowledge.
So the question is - what's knowledge?
asume you wake up at midnight and look at your watch - it sais it's midnight so you believe it. you now 'know' that it is midnight.
That is, asuming we take time for granted as being ...[text shortened]... ebates or posers and puzzlers as it seems a bit too general for either. have fun guys.
knowledge is the collection of data that may be true or untrue....truth is the apprehension of that data which is correct....reality is per se itself what it is...reality may be a contradiction so we cannot say that
reality is truth.... and mere knowledge...being a collection of data which is either true or untrue is thus not reality or truth...that is why i just google...
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As a student of sociology, I am interested in the social construction of knowledge and the interrelations of social systems and systems of knowledge. For example, in one particular social structure, religious knowledge systems may dominate, in others science, in still others metaphysical philosophies will be taken as knowledge. In short, what is considered to be "knowledge" or "truth" is often defined by the dominant institutions in a time and place.
Originally posted by reinfeldI disagree. You say "reality may be a contradiction". Possibly a contradiction of what is believed, but not a contradiction of the truth! You've mangled the statement to say that reality is not truth. Reality is the only truth.
reality is per se itself what it is... reality may be a contradiction so we cannot say that reality is truth....
...reality may be a contradiction....it may be finite and infinite...we do not
know...for how small does something become when it is finite and infinite
has no size...no, we can know truth...which is the correct apprehension of
what we do know but this is not to know what we do not know and there
may be things that are not knowable...ergo...reality...truth cannot blanket
reality unless the truthknower is co-exisitent with reality...
Originally posted by padfootVery simple:
I'm in my first year of doing the International Backaloreat and in Theory of Knowledge we recently covered the idea of knowledge.
So the question is - what's knowledge?
asume you wake up at midnight and look at your watch - it sais it's midnight so you believe it. you now 'know' that it is midnight.
That is, asuming we take time for granted as being ...[text shortened]... ebates or posers and puzzlers as it seems a bit too general for either. have fun guys.
Knowledge is 4 pints of Guiness and a nice Joint in the evening while playing RHP/TFC... all else is nought.
The more you learn the less you know....