Stereotypes And Conviction In The Truth: The Theory Of Knowledge

To further investigate this topic we first have to define what exactly belief is, which the dictionary (dictionary.com) defines it as "Mental acceptance and conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something." Belief however is greatly connected to knowledge, since if you think about it, they are in approximately the same area, where belief is the base of the pyramid, and knowledge is the top. Knowledge was originally based on belief. From the very beginning, a person would believe in a theory, and then base their knowledge on that belief and this produces faulty arguments. This "knowledge" would be passed on to through generations as a fact, and since people would be taught these theories at a young age, they would not even think of questioning this fact and where it came from, accepting it as it is, and as it was taught to them by their parental units.

Different people would have different kinds of beliefs, and this would,

Since history is too far back and is not documented as good as the latest Hollywood rumor or a bed time story, history is documented by people which if dated not too far back, can hold great value to society since it could teach people about the past and explain why one should not repeat the same mistakes that had been made before. Perception and bias are VERY big factors in history as well as belief since one side would tell a story that would make them sound good and miss the point or the truth. In order for documents to work they should be documented by people from different sides, and this way we can extract the true meaning, and not someone's belief of this topic. For instance the statement that a Supreme Being came to earth is but a theory since there are no proven facts but ancient stories, and many "facts" in that theory have very big holes in them, which to some people seem very unrealistic and those people tend to reject that