That Which is Accepted as Knowledge Today is Sometimes Discarded Tomorrow

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The world evolves around us and we evolve around it. Knowledge as we know may develop and change over a period of time. Knowledge in its working definition is information passing from one person to another by using any sort of communication, then by using our given senses to take information, which is kept in our minds as memories for future use as a knowledge- as a true belief, truth in its definition is a fact that has been proven or a belief that can be accepted as correct. The knowledge we understand off can overtake some of the other ideas that we have found. We may “accept” what we learn at first because we would not have any proof or evidence that contradicts against it and upon rationalisation. Based on our empirical experience of the world, it can be described as a way of justifying what is to be right with quantifiable evidence. “Discarded” can be defined as the neglected knowledge or no longer reliable in after experimentation or through a process of rationalisation. According to the title, knowledge seems useful yet we neglect some of it and refine it to make it become a new knowledge by based on further discoveries. As the foundation of knowledge is relied on past experiences and observations therefore the knowledge issue raised is “To what extent does our past experiences affect our decisions on what knowledge we accept? The title states that we may reject knowledge as we find new and developed theories or issues. In the contrary we still use the discarded knowledge to deduce what is to be correct. The idea of a paradigm shift arises when we find a new knowledge and observe around the concept then when we find a mistake or a new deduction we leap into another knowledge or a concept and that leap is called a paradigm ...

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Looking at this in a different perspective, we do not discard all the knowledge we know
Overall, this essay I have made claims that history is what makes us who we are by learning through mistakes that are regarded as to be “discarded” knowledge. When it comes to Natural sciences we cannot always look back at the discarded knowledge but rather start from it because starting from the beginning will just bring us to back where we were. “There are many hypotheses in science, which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the apertures to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.” This quotes says it all. This has led me to a new knowledge issue: To what extent does progress and our mistakes from the past allow us to come closer to truth?

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