Knowledge Of Knowledge Essay

Knowledge is the fact or information of knowing and understanding something with familiarity gained through experience, education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. Knowledge itself has been a foundation for people in understanding what is going around, predicting what will be happening and making sense of the world. I agree with the statement above. Sometimes some knowledge claims are discarded, and some stay. First let’s talk about word discarded, as how discarded might not really mean discarded as we know it. It could be like evolution, as old theories are constantly being "evolved" by new theories, they are discarded. I think we can say also that the knowledge is “developing”. The easiest area of knowledge that we face in the real life situation is the present of history. History is the recorded narrative or chronicle of past events, especially those concerning a particular period, nation, individual, etc. It recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of their interest or importance.

It can be seen from this that history acknowledges the existence of events and facts and seeks to understand how they came about, what they resulted in, how they are interconnected and what they mean (Wagnall, 1973). History has modeled our perception of the world around us and changed our actions on a global level. Once Peter Berger said Flexible here can be explained that history might be changed over time as the evidences developed.. We can say they're not discarded, but rather, the old theories simply were assimilated within the new theories and "evolved." The knowledge is also apparent in both the human ...

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...o be true until now since there are no objection or revolution towards it, so far. This might give me a statement that knowledge is not provisional when there is not objection or revolution towards the theory itself. But later in future it could be provisional when the development of new concepts about the theory is made and proved.

With all the things I have mentioned above, I can then conclude that history and natural sciences proves to be a provisional knowledge. Because history and natural sciences are might be incomplete. With the statement “That which is accepted as Knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow” I can say that the old theories need to be assimilated into the new theories in order to create a better and more accurate truth of the world. All kind of knowledge can experience a paradigm shift, but we don’t know the time when it will happen.