Tuesday, October 14, 2014
How Do I Know What I Know??
This question is extremely hard to answer. When I think about it one can not be completely certain about something. But mainly what I know, is given to me by people or many sources for information such as movies, books, the news, etc. I either learn it, read it, or have experienced it. I use what I have learned to use in my own life. But when it really comes down to it, how do I really know that this is something I am sure about?? It is hard to know for sure. I think that the lack of certainty leads to the many questions that comes with living life. Like why do I do what I do? Plenty of questions arise all of the time, yet the answer is never really satisfying. Sometimes when it comes to "knowing" what I know, it mostly comes from intuition, or a feeling that I am certain of something. But feeling it doesn't necessarily mean that it is right. So does that mean knowing isn't always right? So if it isn't right, then what is the point of knowing something??
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This kind of connects to the cave wall, and how there's really no way to be certain that we know something.
ReplyDeleteI agree that a lot of it just comes down to intuition and it can be really hard to trust a gut feeling as an absolute proof to knowing something.
ReplyDeleteThe questions that you ended this blog with are sticking to me. They remind me of Siddhartha and humans' thirst for knowledge; we sometimes prioritize the idea of knowing over knowing the truth.
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