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Knowledge
- People claim to know many things.
- Most of them are mistaken.
- Some of them are lying.
- The following system may help clarify this complex situation.
- The first form of "knowledge" is actually perception.
- Which includes everything you see, hear, sense etc., including internal states such as emotion.
- Raw perception is not knowledge as it is quite possible that you are consistently mistaken.
- Other things also usually confound it. For as soon as you see something and think "That is a chair" or feel something and think "I am angry" you have strayed beyond perception.
- Into the realm of opinion.
- Which covers virtually everything that is commonly called knowledge.
- That all religious, political and ideological beliefs are a matter of opinion is quite clear.
- From the fact arguments about them can last centuries without either side even listening to the other.
- However it should be noted that scientific theories are also a matter of opinion.
- Although usually more useful than the opinions of politicians or theologians.
- For although the sentence "All unpowered objects observed by people I consider reliable have seemed to fall to earth at a constant rate of acceleration." merely describes a bunch of perceptions.
- The statement "An invisible force called gravity causes objects to fall to Earth at a constant rate of acceleration" is opinion.
- As there could be another explanation, no matter how unlikely.
- To say "Any object I drop will fall to Earth" is also stating an opinion.
- Although not one I myself would bet against.
- However the only way to be sure of that statement would be to have already dropped it in those exact circumstances, including location in time.
- This does not appear to be possible.
- All this however does not invalidate science; it is rather a warning to the researcher to be aware that they are undoubtedly oversimplifying matters.
- It should be pointed out that this system is itself an opinion.
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This post was last edited on the 9th of August, 2009 at 4:44pm
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