"Our knowledge in all these enquiries reaches very little farther than our experience" . Locke asserts the principle that true knowledge is learned. As humans, our knowledge about the world around us and the subjects within it come from a study of our surroundings. Locke's...
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.” – Plato These three things from the quote really differentiate humans from other animals. Desire is what we live for and have an aim in life to achieve it and emotion is a way...
When we speak about the “production of knowledge” it refers to a complex and time- consuming process of something, that means as a “acquiring or gaining” knowledge which is a reliable information, an entity or thing that relates to our experience, conceptual, representational thinking which...
Knowledge is true opinion’. This saying by Plato really hit my senses, as I had always received knowledge from a higher authority, from teachers in school to elderly in my religious society. However, through collective opinion, we get a varied response from many people, possibly...
The quote, “We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge” by John Naisbitt seems to refer to the quality of knowledge issue, as some knowledge claims tend to lack quality. What the quote claims to mean is how one can separate quality of the...
Many people see Religious Knowledge System and Ethics convincing because of the fact that these two have established rules and evidence to support what they put on or what they judge as true. In this word many people have the faith in religion and those...
Production of knowledge can be defined as the methods of generating idea which will be helpful for the understanding of some concept for human being. Production of knowledge is something that takes time to be realized. Sharing knowledge is an activity through which knowledge is...
To interpret the title we must first understand the term “robust knowledge”, by defining knowledge as justified true belief, suggesting that knowledge itself already is of absolute quality. This makes the task problematic and so I have interpreted robust knowledge as a notion in which...
The production of knowledge requires accepting conclusions that go beyond the evidence for them In this essay we will analyse and discuss the fifth ToK question «The production of knowledge requires accepting conclusions that go beyond the evidence for them». We will first talk about...
As I understand it, “disinterestedness” refers to objectivity and value-free pursuit of knowledge. When we are disinterested, we detach ourselves from biases and become more neutral and open-minded which helps attaining more reliable knowledge. “Pursuit of knowledge” in this claim means knowledge acquisition and production....
The nature of knowledge and the conditions required for something to be considered knowledge have been subjects of philosophical inquiry for centuries. Among the prominent theories of knowledge, one that has garnered significant attention is the concept that knowledge is justified true belief. In this...
