purpose. Such as a monk that accepts that his God is real for the sake of faith and piety. Another type of acceptance is acceptance to avoid error. Such as I know that all objects is made from atoms. I accept this with respect to obtaining the truth and avoiding error. Another factor for me to accept knowledge is from where the source of knowledge is coming from. I find it much more reliable that a source is knowledge is coming from a teacher or even a scientist. However‚ I know that these
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this claim. I’d always believed that the truth was a rather simple idea. To me‚ it was something that was true or correct or existing in this world. But after all the discussions in TOK‚ with family and with friends‚ and after deep rumination on the subject‚ I’ve realized that’s it’s a much more broad‚ complex and often mind-boggling concept. However‚ now I see that there are essentially three main factors that lead us to accepting something as the truth: a strong emotional belief‚ our senses (particularly
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two areas of knowledge? As a Persian proverb once said to have progress in knowledge it is necessary to doubt. In other words‚ when we begin to doubt what we believed was true‚ we move forward to better knowledge making a further step to Absolute Truth. To what extent is doubt involved into the process of gaining knowledge? What is the function of doubt? To what extent is doubt either an engine or a brake to the progress in different areas of knowledge? To reveal the different facets of this issue
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In Sophocles’ play‚ Oedipus‚ the King‚ there are various instances where Oedipus tries to escape his destinyenlightenmentonly to discover the truth that he cannot. Similarly‚ in Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" the prisoner travails to understand and adjust to his newly visited environment. In both works‚ the men first had to realize their ignorance before they could begin to acquire knowledge and true understanding of the complexities of the human condition. Specifically‚ in Oedipus‚ the King‚ it
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The names Astrophil and Stella mean Star-lover and Star‚ suggesting the impossibility of their union because of the distance between them The sixteenth century was a time of scientific‚ historical‚ archaeological‚ religious and artistic exploration. More attention was being allotted to probing into the depths of the human psyche and it was up to the artists and poets rather than the priests and scholars to examine and mirror these internal landscapes. The ’little world of man’ [1] was reflected
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Arlet Duran Response to “The Allegory of the Cave” What is truth? In “The Allegory of the Cave”‚ I believe truth is being portrayed as something we as humans see‚ maybe only once‚ without it even being the whole truth. Even then we neglect to see “other truths.” According to Socrates‚ and I quote‚ “From the beginning people like this have never managed‚ whether on their own or with the help by others‚ to see anything besides the shadows that are [continually] projected on the wall opposite
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“One day the truth will emerge‚ like a corpse in the water.” -Wieslaw Brudzinski. Everyone has been lied to‚ mistreated or even betrayed at some point in their life. That feeling is awful‚ but to be the person that did so wrong should feel even worse because of the pain they caused to someone else. The meaning of this quote to me is very relatable in a lot of ways‚ being right out of high school I know what its like to have been lied to and feeling like an idiot because you probably believed
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people‚ family member. Dоctоrs cоntinuоusly face an еthical dilеmma‚ tеll thе wholе truth of the situation‚ which can be telling people their loved one may die‚ or leave out details to provide a glimmer of hope. In case they lie it is called "white lies". In some countries doctors do not tell the sex of the future child to their future parents. Because some families do not want the birth of girl. So not tell the whole truth‚ doctors avoid abortion or problems in family. As for parents‚ they also
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finally the truth may be found out. The next fact is that no one will trust us. Then come serious problems. For example‚ when I ask make questions to my friend and get information which is not true. When I come to know the fact‚ I will not believe in her sayings for the next time. Unbelievable‚ she is of course a good friend at all. The friendship between her and me may become worse. I no longer respect the friend. Dishonesty can put those who lie in difficult situations. When the truth does come
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Title Will Durant‚ a U.S author and historian‚ writes‚ “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” This means that all the knowledge people once had is misleading to what the truth really is. Similarly‚ in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read and Write” a painful process of gaining knowledge through all the ignorance is described. Plato describes a prisoner going on a journey to gain knowledge that is behind him‚ after he was stuck staring at
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