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Essay / Knowledge is knowledge today - 1177
When we think about the knowledge we have today, we realize that some of it is different from what it may have been in the past. The question of knowledge that arises from the statement "What is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes rejected tomorrow" concerns what we may believe to be "knowing" today, whether this may prove false tomorrow. “Accepted knowledge” is another way of saying that it is what everyone generally believes, but sometimes it is “rejected,” which is another way of saying that some knowledge is updated or rejected as false. The problem is that people strive to acquire knowledge, which can be classified as false, making the acquisition of knowledge useless after a while. I will focus on how the fields of knowledge, history and natural sciences to be more specific, are the main proponents of this concept. Knowledge has never been concrete because of the way people change their minds about history and natural science. I think history is routinely recorded and "revised" by many historians, and is routinely discarded when it is no longer needed. What is universally accepted in the natural sciences is that there is always more to discover when it comes to what is already known, which in turn can be refuted. It is important to note that we are also bound by ways of knowing, as this is how our reason and language are used, which also results in new knowledge being formed while old knowledge becomes useless. There is also a counterargument that knowledge in mathematics, because it follows the principle of one correct answer, can therefore never be proven wrong. But, to begin with, history is usually full of information that is important, then it gets buried with new... middle of paper ... and is replaced with new knowledge because it is expected to finding new information to refute what was taught in the past, this is then glorified by the people around. There is an outlier in mathematics because knowledge in mathematics is rather fixed because there is not much to improve or disprove. The problem with rejecting knowledge in other areas of knowledge is that there is no way of knowing what is true or false. We accept what we are taught in our schools, but this is where there can be a problem. We learn enPage | 5006537-0007the theory of knowledge the intricacies of what we have been taught since we were children and we must judge to some extent how much we believe in the knowledge we have received. It's hard to argue against someone about the knowledge we learn today, when yesterday's knowledge has already been discarded..