Knowledge And Knowledge: The Definition Of Knowledge

To explore what it really means to have knowledge we must first have to come to common understanding of this word means. There is a common definition by the oxford dictionary published in 21th century claiming knowledge to be the facts, information, and skills acquired through experiences or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. We all have our own connotations to this word, but to build a common understanding we stick to the definition of the word.

Making assumptions is something we’ve claimed to be doing for generations to build this idea of higher empire of knowledge. The denotation of the word states a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof. Which basically means it’s not quite

This brings me to my counterclaim which is, not all knowledge is based on uniformity. There is a difference between an assertion and a proposition. If we understand this difference we’ll be able to tell whether or not if the person actually knows something or is basing it on his or her beliefs. An assertion is a linguistic act – either spoken or written – that has a truth value. A truth value is a state of being either true, or false but never both. For example, all declarative sentences have truth values. The content of the assertion is the proposition, the underlying meaning of what you’re saying. A proposition is true if it asserts a claim that corresponds to reality. Philosophers believe that knowledge won’t go too far without understanding the classical definition of ‘belief’. Belief is when we take a propositional attitude of truth. But people like everyone else can have false beliefs. Which raises the question of when do we actually know something. In philosophical terms knowledge is a ‘justified true belief’. This has three components to it. First, we must believe in something, second our beliefs must correspond to reality and third our belief must be justified. That is, we have some sort of legitimate

People might think mathematics and philosophy are poles apart, but they’re a lot closer than we think. There reason is both fields require and demand thinking on a very abstract level. Mathematics has furnished philosophy with a certain kind of knowledge. In the gate of Plato’s academy it states that “let no one enter here who knows no geometry”. This was because the ancient Greeks regarded geometry rather than arithmetic the foundation of mathematics. The reason was of course the unhappy story of Pythagoras. They believed that everything in the world could be expressed as the ratio of whole numbers, which was soon proven wrong by the existence of irrational numbers. Mathematics provides a model of knowledge. Most people aspire this knowledge because it’s certain. It exists in an unambiguous world of binary. Each mathematical statement exists only as true or false. Mathematics is believed to have the most fundamentally clear structure in academia. Therefore, it follows my first claim of uniformities in every school of thought. Plato believed in the superiority of reason over senses. This idea of grasping the abstract intellectually was fundamental purpose of most mathematicians. But this system of knowledge began with an assumption. This assumption was the binary of existence, which is either true of false. Therefore, is supports the idea that there was an assumption of the existence of