2006-12-06 04:16:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Ok..before you go telling me I DON'T have knowledge. What IS knowledge, really? Nothing more than what we claim to "know" from experience. What is experience? That which we perceive. What are perceptions? Beliefs based on sense-data. Do our senses always provide us with 100% accuracy? I think not. Hence why things like "optical illusions" and how we can't hear dog whisles "exist". And, if I were to say "smoking causes cancer", well of course that would be "common knowledge", but if I asked you to elaborate and say do you REALLY know that and how, you might say "go ask John Doe, a clinical researcher on the subject". So, again, I ask..what do we really "know" and is there SUCH a thing as knowledge?
2006-12-06 04:23:25 · update #1
I think so.
...Therefore I am so. ;)
Of course there is. Mainly though its the PROCESS of learning itself.
2006-12-06 04:18:01 · answer #1 · answered by Oh, I see 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, knowledge is simply the state of knowing based on our perceptions. Whether those perceptions are valid or not has no real bearing and is the reason why your knowledge may or may not be sound and valid.
I may say that the sky is green because I saw it on a sci-fi TV show and so I may incorporate that into my collective knowledge about the sky... even if it is wrong compared to everyone else's perception.
We all possess knowledge of some form or another... whether it is accurate or not is completely something else.
2006-12-07 19:59:12 · answer #2 · answered by Martyr2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows? Maybe its all a lie.
2006-12-06 12:21:16 · answer #3 · answered by Rosie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All words are made up words.
2006-12-06 20:36:59 · answer #4 · answered by q 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
2006-12-06 12:17:59 · answer #5 · answered by Mama R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is and you certainally do not have it
2006-12-06 12:19:26 · answer #6 · answered by aksh_1991 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, there is...REALLY!
2006-12-06 12:19:06 · answer #7 · answered by Michael R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋