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29-09-06, 02:32 PM
What exactly is KNOWLEDGE....lets get rid of the definition its most broad and quite frankly deceptive form.....KNOWLEDGE IS WHAT YOU KNOW (innit?)
The dictionary provides us with the following definitions:
1. the sum of what is known
2. acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition
3. the body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time.
For all the big brains out there (dont mean to be patronising) I am sure you wouldn't settle for these inept definitions for one second!!! Why?? Well because they are all incomplete, insufficient and bereft of proper tangible substance - and you dont have to have watched teh matrix to know that!
what do you "KNOW"??
People once "knew" that the world was flat!!...Is that Knowledge??
Is "truth" KNOWLEDGE??
It may have something to do with it but we must remember that TRUTH can be subjective, what is TRUE for one may not be TRUE for another.
WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE???
Plato said: for a statement to be classed as knowledge is must be; Justified, True, and Belived.
There aremany who disagree with this definition saying its too broad still! And then ther are the staunch Skeptics...who would refute that KNOWLEDGE is attainable at all.
but what do you think???? WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE??
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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