That Which Is Accepted as Knowledge Today Is Sometimes Discarded Tomorrow”. Consider Knowledge Issues Raised by This Statement in Two Areas of Knowledge.

| The study of knowledge: What constitutes knowledge, the nature of knowledge, and whether knowledge is possible

There has been many misunderstandings about science over the years. People be thinking that scientific knowledge is absolute and that it never changes, but it's all wrong. Scientific knowledge is never absolute. Which means that nobody can ever actually find the final proof for any scientific theory. Whenever scientists are working on any type of theory they create some type of model, which is some type of idea that they have, which in most cases is wrong, scientists then keep researching further more and if they ever get any more details or anything that lists different than what the scientists thought they go back and change it. The reason that it's always

As human it is easy to embrace the adage “Knowledge is power”. The knowledge that we have learned as it should be by rights. However, knowledge can be a curse. Curse of knowledge is defined as the tendency to be biased be one’s own knowledge when attempting to appreciate a more naïve or uninformed perspective (Birch and Bloom,2004). Once we have an unusual of knowledge that the knowledge tends to contaminate or bias, our ability to reason about a more naïve perspective. It’s hard to imagine not knowing something when you know it and it becomes difficult to share your knowledge with others because you cannot recreate your listener’s not knowing perspective. For instance, asking direction can be confusing when someone does not know their mode. In this picture, a policeman is explaining the direction of how to get from one place to another place that the person does not know. This is curse of knowledge because the policeman already has the knowledge of route and he is not taking into consideration that the person is not following in his own mind. Furthermore, people such as in business, education and more have been affected by curse of knowledge. Most of the time we do not know we are affected even do not what is the curse of knowledge. The hypothesis statement is people tend to overestimate their ability to explain their familiar areas of knowledge than other information. The reason that I choose this idea because it is interesting to me when I first saw the word” curse of

Science plays an important role in society today as it helps us understand the ever-changing world around us through the power of observation. Oxford dictionary defines science as “The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”. This ambiguous definition begs the question that this essay will answer through use of falsification; what makes science special from every other body of knowledge?

Science continually changes as improvements in knowledge and technology reveal new evidence to scientists. Science has changed in time in many different ways, for example many people believed the earth was flat. Christopher columbus discovered the earth was round when he reached india by sailing west from spain, at that point he knew the earth wasn’t flat. Also when ships would sail into the horizon they weren’t able to see the whole ship only the top part of it first. Today it is well known that the earth is a sphere or at least very close to one.

Scientific questioning and understanding develops as time progresses. Our scientific knowledge needs to expand and grow just like the human race changes and grows. Social situations that surround scientific work affect specific sciences that are being investigated. Science has existed to explain the natural occurrences throughout history. For example, the researching of atomic weapons reveals how social pressure and rationale had a hand in the study of the atomic bomb. In order to quickly end the war, America would need to use the bomb despite the devastating consequences. Scientific research was elicited to act upon the situation because America needed to have the bomb in order to be powerful while in war as well as maintain world power. Because

Science is the knowledge gained by a systematic study, knowledge which then becomes facts or principles. In the systematic study; the first step is observation, the second step hypothesis, the third step experimentation to test the hypothesis, and lastly the conclusion whether or not the hypothesis holds true. These steps have been ingrained into every student of science, as the basic pathway to scientific discovery. This pathway holds not decision as to good or evil intention of the experiment. Though, there are always repercussions of scientific experiments. They range from the most simplistic realizations of the difference between acid and water to the principle that Earth is not the center of

What once may have been considered as knowledge can be replaced, or even discarded, due to new evidence. This phenomenon raises knowledge questions since what was once believed may utterly change with time, and therefore have an impact on humanity. Two areas of knowledge that can show that knowledge that was one accepted can be discarded afterwards, or that it may be replaced by different movements and approaches, are in my opinion Psychology as a human science and Physics as a natural science. Knowledge can be reviewed, and, a different perspective might be acquired where we consider progress, according to which facts may become re-evaluated.

     Science is and has become a necessity to know just to keep up with the tremendous advancements of today and tomorrow. Basic things, such as how the universe was suspected to be started or who Ptolemy and Galileo were and what they did are just things that need to be known to fully understand what is happening in the world around you. These things are what you need to know, if you’re a scientists, to a grocery shop bagger.

Science is a controversial subject very much like Judicial System. Although Science is largely composed of observation,

The problem of why the theory of knowledge is not taught in the schools is relatively easy to see. Epistemology is, after all, a dangerous subject. If we start to question the validity of statements, then the teachers themselves come under question…… Inquiry is indeed a challenge to the acceptance of things as they are. (p. 2-3)

In this project, the philosophical issue is how do we acquire knowledge? Acquisition of knowledge is a culture that is very important in the day to day life of each individual. The world itself revolves around knowledge, it is through knowledge that we can get to grow as human beings either in or academics, careers and in life at general. Epistemology has been well explained by the well re-known philosophers such as David Hume and Rene Descartes. This paper focuses on a philosophical issue: how we acquire knowledge, the philosophers who explored and talked about it, the concerns available and our present view on the current issue.

Personal knowledge and shared knowledge are two extremely different ways in which people obtain knowledge. Shared knowledge is defined as ‘a socio-cultural knowledge, broadly along the lines of a set of norms, values, signifiers and cultural mores’ and ‘personal knowledge comes from the local experience of an individual’ . From my own perspective I believe shared knowledge is obtained through collaborative work; knowing from others, and personal knowledge is obtained from a person’s own opinion; what I know. The role the two forms of knowledge; personal knowledge and shared knowledge, play in human sciences and mathematics exemplifies their importance in a person’s understanding of the world.

The nature and process of science are a collection of things, ideas, and guidelines. “The purpose of science is to learn about and understand our universe more completely” (Science works in specific ways, 3). Science works with evidence from our world. If it doesn’t come from the natural world, it isn’t science. You need to be creative and have flexible thoughts and ideas if you want to be a scientist. Science always brings up new ideas and theories and if you aren’t flexible to those ideas you can’t be a scientist. Science has been in our world for a long time. It is deep into our history and our cultures. The principals of science; are all about understanding our world using the evidence we collect. If we can’t collect evidence on something we simply cannot understand it. If we don’t understanding something about our world, science says that we can learn about it by collecting evidence (Science has principals, 4). Science is a process; it takes time. You don’t immediately come to a conclusion for your hypothesis a few minutes

Science enables critical evaluation of phenomena in the world around us, based on evidential hypotheses. The use of the scientific method has allowed reliable scientific claims to be made, leading to the belief that science is rational. A claim made on the grounds of scientific experimentation is more widely accepted than a statement perceived to be common sense. However, scientific experimentation cannot explain the rationality of science. Over time, the theories of philosophy in science have evolved in an attempt to explain why science is rational.