Week 2 - 01


In class we had an interesting discussion about the following questions. In this blog I've included the questions and what I came up with as answers for them.

  1.  Is there a difference between ‘knowing’ something and ‘having knowledge’ of something?
    • Knowing is firsthand experience, knowledge is a gathering of other people's knowing.
  2. What is ‘truth’?
    • It is the proven facts about something without any imagining or theories, or what is widely accepted as being correct and factual. Often we say something is true when it could possibly not be, so 'true' can either mean what just is correct and factual, or what the majority believes to be true based off a combination of knowing and knowledge.
    • Something can be believed as true when a group of people agree that something is correct based off their combined knowledge.
    • A truth is something we believe to be correct.
  3. What do we really mean when we say something is ‘true’?
    • It is what we 'believe' to be correct and factual.
  4. Is there a difference between knowing something is ‘true’ and believing that something is ‘true’?
    • Knowing something is true means you know the truth based on experience. Example, I saw a computer in a room. I know the computer was there because I actually saw it.
    • Believing something is true could mean that someone told me that there is a computer in that room. I could believe them, so now whether the computer is there or not, I believe it is there. I have accepted that that is the truth.
    • Belief is the perception that something is true.
  5. What is the difference between subjective and objective ‘truth’?
    • Subjective truth cannot be proven, so knowledge passed down about some event that is accepted as true, but there is no way to actually prove that the event happened.
    • Objective truth is something that can be proven, such as math. The answer to a mathematical equation is an objective truth because it can proven to be
  6. What is a ‘fact’ and can ‘facts’ change ?
    • A fact is knowledge that has been proven to be true. A fact can change if new truths are discovered and the fact is proven to be different. There is a reference to the fact. Facts can consistently proven.
  7. How do we discover if something is ‘true’ or not?
    • Through testing. We can repeatedly prove that something is correct.
  8. “We do not see things as they are but as we are” Anais Nin. What does this mean?
    • That we see things from a perspective. We all see things differently because our brains process what we take in different.
  9. “Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one” Einstein. What does this mean?
    • Reality is not necessarily true or as we think, it is merely our perception of what is around us.
  10. Is there a difference between ‘true’ and ‘valid’? Explain!
    • Something that is true has been proven to be the case, but something that is valid is merely the logical conclusion based on the premises regardless of whether the premises is true or not.

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