Confudence And Knowledge: The Importance Of Knowledge And Confidence

A high attainment of knowledge is often a correspondent with confidence as one must feel comfortable within an area they have experience in. Little knowledge in a field of study often correlates to increased doubt and lack of confidence due to inexperience. These two statements are a typical idealized approach when discussing knowledge and confidence. Knowledge can be described as justified true belief, whilst typically but not necessarily dependent on facts and theories. These facts and theories provide the basis for scientific and mathematical understanding. Confidence, however, as the opposite isn’t seen as dependent on numerical values, or facts & figures but can be described as the belief in your own ability to succeed. This suggests that

If the dog had confidence and knowledge in what was being consumed there would be no hesitation. These concepts described are somewhat intertwined across all areas of knowledge, however, there are some discordances between which areas of knowledge agree which therefore leads to contradiction.

The area of ethics is built upon clairvoyance and logic. Ethics is usually associated with empathy and some may say that the ethical choices you make, may highly depend on your moral upbringing. For example, a vegetarian views the consumption of meat to be morally wrong. To others however, being a carnivore is not ethically chosen but more introduced due to upbringing. The clear majority of individuals decide based on emotion, logic and reasoning when transitioning their eating habits. This freedom of choice is viewed as a basic ‘human right’ and in most countries justifiably given to all people. However, knowledge of ethical rights has been altered over time, certain rights have been abolished and others have been created. Past historical events such as slavery were once an acceptable act and ethically not even

Human kinds mentality of what right and wrong is dependent on physical evidence which is why some cases of wrongful imprisonment occur. Once new evidence surfaces, our confidence drops and doubt increases. Which is why we “Know with confidence when we know little” but to full grasp the concept at hand and to allow the attainment of certainty, a quote from Stanislaw I Leszczyński “To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting”. In fact, basing certain knowledge from others may be in fact a limitation to our own understanding, whilst knowledge is consistently evolving the ability to question and doubt gets lost amongst collective ignorance. The fact that what’s ‘known’ with confidence doesn’t change that individuals may morally know something