The Theory of Knowledge

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Human beings have a thirst for knowledge, which leads to the evolution and the creation of knowledge. We gain knowledge through sense perception, reason, language and emotion. Every one of these determinants can be influenced by personal background, feelings, and incomplete methods of reasoning and so on. Therefore, this essay will be analyzing the above question through two areas of knowledge history and religion. Knowledge, learnt today may easily be discarded tomorrow due to various reasons, of the notion of time is different and today is considered as the present whereas tomorrow is understood as the future. Many examples and real life issues have shown that knowledge earned today can be discarded tomorrow, for instance on one hand history has changed because of historians’ own versions of history, and on the other hand believers in a certain religion may believe in their holy book.
History, the study of the past, is a great way to examine whether or not knowledge learnt today can be discarded today. In the past, it has occurred when scholars have discovered something that had been proven as different later in time. As an example, for a long time Germany was considered as the main reason for the start of the First World War, however historians gathered more evidence and they found a different answer (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2014), which
However, the writers of history are not always reliable sources and they can write their own versions, which can affect the course of history. If the historian is biased towards a certain point, which we call confirmation bias, he will write it in history books which will remain in it, until the other party or historians analyzing that topic, will discover both sides of the story. For ins...

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...arded over time. However, people with religious beliefs may not believe so as they may think that whatever is written in their holy book is the absolute truth and it will never change as it is a message of God, and it is one of the few symbols of God on Earth. We may also believe that knowledge evolves throughout the course of time rather than being discarded. However, this essay has not been fully analyzed as only two areas of knowledge have been evaluated history and ethics.

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Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/zoroastrian/history/persia_1.shtml
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2014. Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Online]
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