“That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow”
Consider knowledge issues raised by this statement in two areas of knowledge.
Knowledge can be defined as justified, true belief. It is also a belief which can be subjective, depending on persons personal views, their cultural background and education system.
In the statement above the word “sometimes” plays very important part, it states that the knowledge claims we acquired today might, but not necessarily will be discarded tomorrow, therefore some of our beliefs will remain the same, even when time will pass.
The word “discarded” not always means, that the Knowledge Claim will be replaced with a new one. It might mean that the idea was completed with new theories which are very likely to occur, as we are still technically progressing. That progress allows us to find new evidence that either support or not the previous theory, finding missing links and gathering more information in the field. Therefore sometimes the theory is just progressively changing. In this essay I will look how the statement “That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow” is true, regarding two areas of knowledge, human sciences, taking in account psychology and economics and arts.
First, I would like to see to what extend our knowledge based on believes can have ethical implications in its process of being accepted or discarded.
The knowledge claim is perceiving homosexuality as a mental illness what was considered to be knowledge claim, based on beliefs of many leaders in the field of psychology before 1970. Although, it hasn’t been scientifically proven and all research failed to deliver any factual and scientific evidence to classify homosexualit...
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...learned about other important factors that needed to be taken under consideration in art, such as line, space, form, value and texture. Implementing freshly acquired knowledge to my previous works I realized that they didn’t actually express my perception as well as they could at my current state, therefore I didn’t consider them as knowledge claims anymore.
Although the process of gaining knowledge is on-going, it can also be selective. For example, sometimes artist even with full knowledge of elements and principals of design, is discarding some of them, because the knowledge they are supplying is not what they will need at current moment to express their perception in the drawing.
Therefore in Visual arts, the concept of knowledge can go both ways, it can either build up with the previous knowledge or can be discarded as this is not what the artist is looking for.
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