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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Knower p4

"Believe those who are seeking the truth.  Doubt those who find it."  ~Andre Gide

In ToK as I mentioned in a previous post, I had to disprove "I am the Knower". How I got to having to do this is because my teachers had everybody in the class write down five things they know is true. Preferably the top five things. I choose:
1-My name is -Blank- -Blank -Blank-
2-The building blocks of life are cells
3-I am the knower
4-I am human
5-I have written this exercise
These seem without a doubt completely true and factual. We then had to pick ONE that we believed in the strongest. I choose #3 partially because I wanted to be arrogant. The reason it is arrogant is because everyday our teachers tell us, we are the Knowers. Once everybody has shared we were told that our homework was to come up with three statements disproving our "truth". Mine is:
1-Maybe you truly don't "know" anything. It's possible that you only perceive the situation then your emotions and reasoning kick in to not just give meaning to what is going on, but to how you relate to the situation. Any language present helps refine what you are perceiving, and then language gives you the ability to express What is going on, Who or What is involved, When and where it is takign place, casue and effect, and lastly how you factor into it.
2-The only things we truly "know" are what we believe to be true, and what we, without hesitation nor doubt, want to be true.
3-If you are asked if you know something, you have to retrieve that information from your memory, and if you forget, or are unable to retrieve that information you've effectivly lost that knowledge. If at a later time you happen to remember the piece of information your memory has just failed you when you need it, and now has repaired itself. From that you could say that your knowledge is subjective to your memory, and your enviorment affects your memory; thus, your memory is affected by your environment.

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