The Theory of Knowledge

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Recommended: Distinguish between knowledge and belief

"That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow." Every day events occur and new discoveries are made. These discoveries can range from smaller personal discoveries about ones self or life, all the way to larger discoveries in science and in history. These discoveries have the possibility of changing the way that certain things are taught and viewed. This leads to the knowledge issue of to what extent are knowledge claims more malleable in natural sciences rather than in history. Knowledge is thought of to be information that’s gained and understood through experience, and knowledge claims are claims made by an individual about this knowledge. In the two areas of knowledge, history and natural sciences, knowledge claims made in natural sciences are much more likely to differ after time (through scientific experiment, new knowledge, etc.) rather than for historical claims to be changed since so far there’s no way to go back in time and change the past.

In natural sciences, with technology improving over time and with scientific thought and ideologies evolving over time, knowledge claims made in natural sciences are much easier to be changed later on rather than historical knowledge claims. Science can be improved on and changed in the blink of an eye. Only eight years ago, a major scientific claim that was once accepted as knowledge (and even taught in schools on a regular basis) was discarded and considered no longer factual. Until 2006, there were considered to be nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, and Pluto. Then the International Astronomical Union changed the definition of a planet to “a celestial body that (a) i...

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... title accepts the fact that knowledge is sometimes changing and in every case it does not stay the same and as accurate for eternity.

Individuals should understand that knowledge claims can and often will change over time no matter in which areas of knowledge (some are just more likely than others). Claims in natural science are much more malleable than claims that are made in history. One cannot change the way things have occurred in the past, but one can make future claims different and disregard previous claims due to advances made in society.

Works Cited

• "Questions and Answers on Planets." International Astronomical Union. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Feb. 2014. .

• "Medical Advances Timeline." Infoplease. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2014. .

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