When a human being, ( a knower ) is in search of knowledge, he or she employs many techniques in order to attain it. Regardless of what method is used, it is expected that the knower should seek or provide justification to why that piece of knowledge is true. This may be through the use of various proofs, whether inductive or deductive, or through the use of logical reasoning based upon previous discoveries. However, the question exists, of whether Maths, one of the areas of knowledge, is the only place where truth can be irrefutably and completely proved.. ... These interrelationships pl...

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Epistemology is the study of the science of knowledge, and that is how people know things to be true. Ancient Greeks only considered real concepts to be knowledge, not nature. Only knowledge, to the Greeks, was power and freedom, and permanent happiness was in the pursuit of knowledge and the joy of understanding. The Greeks, in general, attached more importance to deduction as a source of knowledge. ... The questions of the ancients were voiced even louder with the discovery that where there seems to be nothing, there is air. ...

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It sheds new light on ideas and opens the mind to new discoveries. ... Knowledge refers to the information, skills or facts that are gained by a person through education or experience, practical or theoretical understanding of the subject. Knowledge informs the thinking process, and from the skills and information gained, one can use these to clear assumptions and establish facts. Opinion refers to a judgment or view that is formed about something but not necessarily based on knowledge or facts. ...

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There are also religious arguments for determinism that entail that God's omniscient nature implies God's knowledge of all things that were, are, and will be and therefore no action could be executed without God's prior knowledge and determination of the action. ... In order to recognize that human consciousness possesses free will (without further scientific discovery) one would have to make the claim that consciousness is immaterial and is therefore outside of the laws of Newtonian physics that seemingly determine all material occurrences. ... In order to prove free will'...

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The oppressor tries to dehumanize and control the oppressed while the oppressed can either become an oppressor themselves or realize this control and strive for liberation for both the oppressor and the oppressed through arduous methods of self discovery. ... They achieve this by relying on a hierarchical method that glorifies the knowledge of the teacher and the incompetence of the students. ...

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By beginning his piece with "While one can understand the natural enthusiasm many scientist must feel when they are stretching the existing boundaries", Hofstadter acknowledges his opposition which in turn, possibly enhances his credibility, making him seem more knowledge and professional in the eyes of the reader. ... ", Cooper instills fear and dread into readers by connecting the discovery of such technology with the fictional story of the genie who grants wishes, but the inescapable price of having those wishes granted is greater than the virtues the wish grants. ...

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Another drawback of using deduction is that fact that it limits the creation of a lot more theorems, because when you use deduction, it restricts the process of knowledge by experience. This knowledge by experience is called induction. ... Now, there seem to be more creative people out there doing math, and the more creative people are doing math, the more discoveries the mathematical world will have. ...

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The greatest, most innovative minds in our history have documentation of their ideologies, discoveries, and advancements. By no means is it unlikely for equally great scholars of our time to emerge, but it is much more improbable for these people to have innovative ideas isolated from studying the knowledge and texts of our predecessors. ...

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"In all reasonings from experience, there is a step taken by the mind which is not supported by any argument or process of the understanding, there is no danger that these reasonings, on which almost all knowledge depends, will ever be affected by such a discovery" (163-4). ...

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