PHILO ESSAY

Weixian's philo essay. Free to copy!

2. What are the limitations of our knowledge? Is there anything we can know for certain?

Human beings behave in a way that is drastically different from animals, be it their way of eating, thinking or even sleeping. In addition, under similar conditions and environments, each individual being has their own unique method of solving a problem. The basic reason for this is actually that as human beings, we each have our own set of knowledge and perception of the world. As such, our behaviour differs from one another, depending on the perceived knowledge that we have. In other words, we do and act in a certain way because of the knowledge that we hold to be true or false. For instance, cannibals living in the world feel that it is alright to eat human flesh and thus hunt for humans, whereas vegetarians feel disgusted at the mere thought of just eating meat, let alone human flesh. The question comes in here: to what extent is the basis of our knowledge reliable? Can we know anything for certain?

Firstly, let us define the word ‘knowledge’. Based on the definition given by the Oxford English Dictionary, knowledge is defined variously as facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, or the awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. This indicates that knowledge is restricted by many factors, such as the experience and education that one is exposed to, as well as the different understanding that everyone acquires in a subject. Due to these various factors, we are therefore unable to come to any consensus about ‘true knowledge’.




From this, it is justifiable for us to say that we cannot know anything for certain, because different people have different experiences and as such we acquire different information and possess differing ‘knowledge’.



Knowledge is defined (Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i) facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as "justified true belief". There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories.
Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association, and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.





http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/Know.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge

PICTURES BY DINGDONG

dingdong dingdong it's PICTURE TIME today!


22/4 - our day with darwin darling




HAHAHAHAH darwin needs a real clean up. but wait! where did his hair go?



DARWIN stop that! you'll hurt yourself):

AWW so sweet



SLURP charlotte the licker


17/4 - makeup session!




look at charlotte hunny camwhoring with her prettaye makeup(:

charlotte xiner moony raisin(:



oh by right everyone's legs was under mine but we couldnt capture it. now it looks more like laughing buddha HAHA




random pictures




ohno! LAIZARD is back to her old sticky ways

but she's in love <3 data-blogger-escaped-br="">





brrr it's freezing and guess who thinks that hiding her head in her bag will be warmer. more like OSTRICH pls haha



okay it's time for mugging.
ENJOY the pictures(:

MUGMUGMUGMUGFEST[:

hellos HUNNIES, it's JOKE TIMEEEEEE!

Why is Tigger so dirty?
CAUSE HE LIKES TO PLAY WITH POO(H)

Once upon a time in a fishbowl there were two fish, LALA AND HAHA. One day, Haha died. What did Lala say at Haha's funeral?
HAHA, YOU DIED!

Why is the octopus so smelly?
CAUSE HE HAS EIGHT ARMPITS!

&FOR THE FINALE,

WHAT DID FARMER A SAY TO FARMER B?

WE'RE FARMERS!

OKAYOKAY HOT GUY ALERT!



AHHH

nehru letter

Look at this.

I actually found this with my stash of OBS stuff when I was packing my stuff yesterday. I still have th job dutylist chart with me? Gosh. Oh, but this is a great find. It's super amusing to look at it. So, this is what RI boys are made of (or at least the ppl in this note):




Like, wow. We really LOVED the note mannxzz. Hahaha.

I still remember people from other watches coming over to Nehru's dorm to read the note. And to think someone actually thought of spamming that email. Harhar. Anyway, it's time this photo got uploaded. Brings back memories of OBS(!!). WEIXIAN'S WATCH, aka. Elizabeth Choy, made so much noise every night when Nehru wanted to sleep. Even in the mornings, when we were still sleeping, they could make so much noise. Damn pro lah.


Sheesh, my sister's having movie marathon in her school now. How lucky can they get? I think she's watching mean girls now. Heh. Whatever man.


Tmr got CmPS meeting!
And Moony's a loser!

Lovelove, Xe.
I know you all love me cos I updated this dead ol' thang. (: