TOK ESSAY

Our knowledge is indeed an interpretation of our experiences and facts that we have learned or acquired throughout life. Nonetheless, it is impossible to have a full knowledge of everything or to, at least, try to know everything because knowledge is so broad and extensive that it makes this task quite impossible. Therefore, we store our knowledge in structures so we can navigate through it. It is important to have in mind that there is not absolute knowledge because the acquisition of it is also biased by our different ways of knowing such as emotion and reason. Thus, this statement is to a large extent true that our knowledge is a collection of scraps and those new fragments that are found can alter our entire design of our knowledge. For example in natural sciences, theories and laws of physics, biology, and chemistry can modify the way that we explain natural and artificial events because our world is in constant change, so does technology, which leads scientists and researchers to new finding, this might complement the knowledge that we already know or it might also change it drastically. Furthermore, in history new archeological findings can contradict and ultimately alter our formal conception of the events that have happened in the past. On the other hand, this statement can be somehow not truth, in a small extent, because regardless of new findings, these, so called, new information can be limited to the public thus not leading to an open overview of the subject. For instance, in history, new archeological findings are limited to the public thus they are not fully aware of the situation and past events that might have happened. While, in natural sciences is different because the issue relies on the people who keep believ...

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...s and how we were raised. Thus, knowledge is manipulated in a variety of ways to fit in with the social standards. This is due to the fact that in some cases society is not capable enough to understand and handle what truly happened at the moment of finding new information that can discredit previous knowledge. For instance, in history, there have been a series of events that can be practical regarding this argument. One of these events was performed by the Nazi and the burning of books which was seen as a way to eliminate many of their new knowledge that they found in order to handle history the way that it most suit their needs. In this way manipulating history and limiting it to the public. In this case perception plays an important because of the immeasurable need of the Germans to have control of the knowledge of their population and of the conquered population