Sunday, September 7, 2008
My Groups Responce to "Knowing"
In general, all members of my group agreed on the following statements about truth and knowledge. Most truths come from personal experience and the rest comes in the form of accepted knowledge we acquire from persons we regard as experts in the field we are studying. We unanimously agreed that regardless of the topic; science, religion, political or otherwise, there are always gray areas. As Ben said, "Facts change with evidence and evidence changes with time." I feel strongly that without senses it would be impossible to gather knowledge. We either learn by first hand experience; seeing, feeling, hearing ect., or we are taught, and in order to learn we must be able to communicate, an act impossible with out senses. As a result most people won't consider something to be a truth with out sensory proof of its existence. When I read the story about the little girl I realized, we learn most as children when we are least critical, so does cynicism limit our intake of knowledge?
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