Ways Of Knowing

Pascal said that we can't know certain truth, but reason is the best source of

Do you ever wonder if you know anything? In his argument for skepticism, Peter Unger, states that “nobody ever knows anything to be so” (Unger, Pg. 42). If this were to be true, can one be certain that one knows things about oneself, the world one lives in, and about others? In fact, through the use of different methods, one can indeed know things about oneself, the world one lives in, and about others, which is why Peter Unger’s argument for skepticism can’t be true.

Knowledge is something that we know that you have facts to back up to form your argument and is justified. Knowledge isn’t something that can be created overnight but something that we form over the course of life. I feel that being raised by my grandmother I gained a lot of knowledge and wisdom because she has years and experience over me and wouldn’t tell me anything to hurt me but to help me in life. We all learn from mistakes but with mistakes gain wisdom then knowledge. We don’t gain knowledge overnight but with growth we become more aware of our worldview.

Pascal said that we can't know certain truth, but reason is the best source of

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

Think of a situation from your personal practice in which multiple ways of knowing were used.  Completely describe the situation and discuss how the different ways of knowing were used or demonstrated.  Use your readings to demonstrate your understanding, and to support your explanations of empirical, aesthetic, personal, and ethical knowledge.

“Ways of knowing are a check on our instinctive judgments.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Often times, when people can’t form a logical reason for certain things they did, their justification is “because I had a gut feeling”. Indeed, people sometimes make judgments based on their gut feelings, or intuition. It is a very subjective and interesting way to gain knowledge. Our intuition can trick us into traps in which we never thought we would fall; it can also lead us to bold, unconventional decisions which bring us truth and knowledge. Our instinctive judgments often become more justifiable when they are “checked”, or verified, by other ways of knowing. Before I answer the

I belief that saying that a person can be taught to have knowledge is the same as saying a person who already beliefs in a topic or subject has a opinion. Which we know that opinion can be taught, but so can knowledge because you are teaching an opinion that soon will become a piece of information in a person's mind and that is what the definition is for knowledge. In other words, by learning an Opinion then they also will be receiving knowledge. Again like Socrates explains what Daedalus had told him about how we all will always have knowledge but our true opinion can be lost and maybe never be thought again. For a true opinion to stay in our minds we need to practice and think about the idea or a fact and turn it into an argument.

He is additionally alluding to the constrained way of human knowing as he says; all human knowledge is useless, nothing, at the end of the day, uncertain. Indeed, even in their best operation, notwithstanding with respect to those convictions for which we have the best reasons, and invested the most energy

Empirical ways of knowing refer to what types of knowledge which should be informed to oneself (Johns & Freshwater 1998, p. 4). In this situation, I needed four types of knowledge: the effectiveness of warming intravenous fluids to prevent decreasing temperature during caesarean operations under lumbar anaesthesia, the risks of adverse impacts of low temperature in the operation, the mental condition of patients in operating rooms and the appropriate ways of communication with colleagues.

There is only one path to knowledge and that is the path of truth. The path of truth holds that being is. Another path exists that holds that not-being is, but this is inconceivable. Many people knowing nothing, walk down this incredible path, pondering that both not-being and being both are. However, not-being cannot be recognized, nor thought about, nor spoken of. We are misguided by what we see with eyes that are blind, what we hear with ears that are filled with clamorous noise, and what we speak with tongues that only babble. We may be compelled to follow our careless senses down the wrong path because of habit, but instead we should repudiate these impulses. To walk down the trustworthy path, it is necessary we

This quote is a reference to show how impractical and unnecessary skepticism is for knowledge and that should be considered before accepting a conclusion of not knowing anything as skeptics do. Moore argues that “to prove something is not required for knowledge” Moore G. Proof of an external world (1935), because as I stated in the last paragraph trying to do so will make us fall in an infinite regress by trying to prove that we know that we know… Moore also explains that to prove something “the premises must be different form the conclusion” and that should be enough to accept as knowledge the constant feedback there is between us and the world around us including ourselves as external objects to each other.

Knowledge, in itself, is nothing. It can even be a burden we are gathering tirelessly and than we carry it through a lifetime, climbing obstacles, overcoming challenges, our knowledge barely helping, and sometimes pulling us back instead.

As the great Socrates ones said, that by admiting that you dont know anything, so you can learn something that is how I discover the things that I want to know. The only way of knowing things is the way of becoming conscious of our unknowing, so we can learn. Awareness of the unknowing is the beginning of knowledge. Thus, we can always look for the truth, but the best is if never said that we found it. We may just think of the truth. We may think of what is the truth different in mathematics, the arts and ethics, but let’s never be sure. That is the only way how we are going to become bigger and better people.

The production of knowledge is a process that occurs through a sequence of related actions, these series of actions allows for the Ways of Knowing to interact in a way that works to develop the knowledge that is being produced. From the prescribed title we can claim that while the Ways of Knowing may appear to be acting in isolation when forming knowledge, they are actually working in a variety of different ways in the construction and formation. In some cases, the Ways of Knowing are interacting so closely together that it is often hard to differentiate between them, for example emotion and reason, or imagination and memory. Given the right circumstances faith can be isolated to a point where it can be acting by itself to produce knowledge. However, this knowledge is often deemed as unreliable, due to faith being seen as one of the more “subjective” ways of knowing. This inability to differentiate the ways of knowing from each other during the production of knowledge, raises the questions “Can any knowledge in any Area of Knowledge be produced by a single Way of Knowing?” and “Is it possible to distinguish between Ways of Knowing if they are working together?”. While reason is used in almost all production of knowledge, it is the other Ways of Knowing used that can determine whether the knowledge is reliable or not, as some Ways of Knowing are more subjective than others. This essay will attempt to