Remember when it was published that Pluto is no longer considered as a planet? I remember that our physics teacher was really angry about the fact that in space agency discarded the fact that was known and generally accepted by the general public. In my essay I will discuss how the “old” knowledge was affected when there were new aspects of particular knowledge discovered. I will focus on two areas of knowledge: The natural sciences and the arts and I will ask myself: To what extend can new knowledge contributes to abundance of old, generally recognised facts? Today’s medicine fully understands how human blood circulation works. However in Ancient Greece people believed that blood was related to air, springtime and cheerful personality it was also believed that liver produces all of the blood. This belief was valid until William Harvey described blood circulation more or less on the same way that we know today. He added the critical experimental finding that blood is "pumped" around the body by the heart. This founding caused a chain reaction in medicine. New findings were discovered and that led to our current understanding of the medicine we know today. If you ask a random person how Greeks thought about blood circulation only few could answer that question right because this “old” knowledge was discarded as soon as new discovery appeared. That discovery caused a paradigm shift in the natural sciences. Not only in medicine but also in biology, chemistry and physics and that is basically what paradigm shifts are all about. Some paradigm is an overarching theory shared by community of scientists, which is used to make sense of some aspects of reality. A scientific revolution or paradigm shift takes place when scientists become... ... middle of paper ... ... previous knowledge critically in order to decide if that knowledge is really worth of abundance. Luckily there are some scientists who later discover that discarded knowledge and takes it as a basis for their further research (like in Leibniz – Einstein case) that helps to establish new aspects of knowledge. Works Cited • Wikipedia. "Blood." 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood#History (accessed 2 Feb 2014). • Planetseed.com. "Medicine and the Scientific Revolution | History of Medicine | PlanetSEED." 2014. http://www.planetseed.com/relatedarticle/rise-scientific-medicine-scientific-revolution (accessed 2 Feb 2014). • Lagemaat, Richard Van De. Theory of knowledge for the IB Diploma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. • Wikipedia. "Movie theater." 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_theater#Spelling_and_alternative_terms (accessed 2 Feb 2014).
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century a Scientific Revolution swept over Europe. The start of this Scientific Revolution has been atributed to Nicolaus Copernicus and his Heliocentric Model of the Universe.
The term biomedicine is used to describe scientific medicine which is prominent in Western societies. To get a better grasp of this concept, Baronov (2008) presented the following interrelated views which account for biomedicine’s ongoing development. Fi...
The improvement of medicine over the course of the human successes gave great convenience to the people of today. Science has cured and prevented many illnesses from occurring and is on its way to cure some of the most dreadful and harmful illnesses. As the world modernizes due to the industrialization, so does the ways of medicine. Some cures are approached by chance, some, through intense, scientific measures.
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Our earth has crossed many phases, while passing these phases there has been introduced, found and developed many new knowledge known by theory or principle, or in some cases it is known by giving new name just by modifying an old name(further development of theory). While discovering new knowledge meantime it has also dominated or discarded what has been believed in the past. The level or degree of knowledge has been increased dramatically in this last century. In earlier times, as authorities allowed a lesser degree of critical thinking, because either the knowledge issue regarding to the subject was new or they had not enough resource or little education to find out more information. Today, development of science and technology and excess to education has made it possible to research and find out the unanswerable question from the past and hence made it possible to gain new knowledge and also able to prove, once which was accepted as knowledge issue. Thus, generally accepted knowledge is sometimes discarded. This essay will look into when knowledge is accepted, when it is discarded, and on whose authority.
Knowledge has a preliminary definition which is that it is justified true belief. Due to its dynamic nature, knowledge is subject to review and revision over time. Although, we may believe we have objective facts from various perceptions over time, such facts become re-interpreted in light of improved evidence, findings or technology and instigates new knowledge. This raises the questions, To what extent is knowledge provisional? and In what ways does the rise of new evidence give us a good reason to discard our old knowledge? This new knowledge can be gained in any of the different areas of knowledge, by considering the two areas of knowledge; History and Natural Sciences, I will be able to tackle these knowledge issues since they both offer more objective, yet regularly updated knowledge, which is crucial in order to explore this statement. I believe that rather than discarding knowledge we build upon it and in doing so access better knowledge, as well as getting closer to the truth.
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, radical and controversial ideas were created in what would become a time period of great advances. The Scientific Revolution began with a spark of inspiration that spread a wild fire of ideas through Europe and America. The new radical ideas affected everything that had been established and proven through religious views. "The scientific revolution was more radical and innovative than any of the political revolutions of the seventeenth century."1 All of the advances that were made during this revolutionary time can be attributed to the founders of the Scientific Revolution.
As the centuries unrolled and new civilizations appeared, cultural, artistic, and medical developments shifted toward the new centers of power. A reversal of the traditional search for botanical drugs occurred in Greece in the fourth century BC, when Hippocrates (estimated dates, 460-377 BC), the "Father of Medicine," became interested in inorganic salts as medications.
Scholasticism and the European universities of the past had mainly taught from old commentaries and studies and had not been interested in trying to gather new information. Many scholars had come to the conclusion that there was no new knowledge to be gained from nature. During the Age of Discovery and the following Scientific Revolution, however, this old authority was all but destroyed. The 'new world ' of the Americas and Australia were first found and studied during this time, filling Europe with knowledge of new plants, animals, and people groups. Some of the greatest amounts of new knowledge, though, came not from the ocean, but from the sky. The newly invented telescope, first made by Galileo, opened up a vast sea of never-before-seen information about the planets, their surfaces, and their movements. By proving that nature still had abundant information to be discovered, the Scientific Revolution went against the old Scholastic
the theory of knowledge the intricacies of what we’ve been taught since we were children and we have to judge to an extent of how much we believe the knowledge we have received. It’s hard to argue against someone about the knowledge we learn today, when the knowledge of yesterday has already been discarded.
Amidst many similarities, the rift between ancient and modern science is enormous and has frequently left historians puzzled. Although it is clear to historians that the stagnant science of ancient times developed into the modern scientific pursuit in the 17th century, it is not clear what specifically caused this revolution of scientific thought.
After the industrial revolution in the 18th century in Europe and America, there was the rapid industrial and economic growth in the 19th century, which in turn caused various scientific discoveries and various invention therefore making more progress in identifying illnesses and developing modes of treatment and cure, this was where modern medicine started. After the industrial revolution there were more industries, which in turn created a lot of work-related diseases and poor hygiene, also as the cities began to grow larger, more communicable diseases began to increase, cases like typhoid and cholera became epidemics. As well, due to the changes occurring, more and more people became more aware and since there was democracy there became an increase in demand for health care. There were also the wars that occurred, causing injuries which needed to be treated. Modern medicine evolves to solve the problems of the society at a given time and various advances in this mode of health care has occurred over the years. It has been seen that modern medicine is a positive influence in the society today for various reasons, the goal of the modern medicine is to achieve good health of the citizens, and modern medicine is experimental which is capable of advanced diagnosis. Likewise, modern medicine has an effect on the social and economic state of the modern society. Modern medicine is understood as the science of treating, diagnosing or even preventing illnesses using improved sophisticated technology. This mode of treatment involves a variety of methods, using diet, exercise, treatment by drugs or even surgery.
Discoveries can be traumatic, confronting and shocking; they can lead to an acquisition of a more in depth knowledge of themselves, others and the outer world; this can conflict with an individuals perception of the world.
...ethod we learn to further knowledge to increase our understanding. Those in power may try to do this for beneficial or even unethical needs but knowledge cannot easily be fully erased from history, traces will always remain and it is our job to find it. Some knowledge can withstand the test of time due to this and thus are always changing little by little in order to obtain a better or a more complete truth. Therefore in conclusion “That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow” is an accurate statement as shown from the areas of knowledge history and natural sciences. However, emphasis on the word ‘sometimes’ must be given as history shows us that it will only be discarded if wrong or can be manipulated for personal gain. While the natural science show us knowledge must tested thoroughly before being discarded as all knowledge is useful.