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Does our knowledge depend on our interactions with other knowers? - Coggle…
Does our knowledge depend on our interactions with other knowers?
Yes, it does
Our interactions and discussions about the knowledge we acquire with others affect our understanding and interpretation of that piece of knowledge as we may be persuaded to approve or disapprove that piece of knowledge based on others' words
Example: People may doubt the existence of god in different religions as god's existence cannot be testified through the five senses. Although one may believe in the existence of god through acquiring knowledge from the Bible, one may also be easily persuaded that god does not exist by the words of the others.
It is scientifically proven that humans, as 群居动物, tend to conform when there is conflict. If we are not certain on our perception of the knowledge, our original perception/understanding of the knowledge can be changed by someone else's understanding (or we might adapt our understanding and merge it with the other).
Example: Philosopher Socrates believes that people don't understand their ignorance until they have had fierce discussions with their peers and debated successfully. From his multiple interactions with other philosophers, we can see that people do change their understanding of knowledge based on others.
Knowledge is learned through interactions with the outside world and other people in our lives. Knowledge can be taught or self-observed by learning from others.
Example: Philosopher Aristotle believes that humans gain knowledge through experience. By experiencing with things in the world, we are able to learn from our mistakes or others' mistakes and understand what we should do and what we shouldn't do.
Example: Children are able to learn how to walk by watching and imitating the adults around them. Without witnessing this kind of behavior, children wouldn't have the urge to want to walk as they wouldn't understand that they need to.
No, it doesn't
Knowledge is acquired on our own. By battling with our inner thoughts and diving deeper into our subconcious believfs, we are able to learn and know about the world.
Example: Laozi believes that to obtain the purest and true knowledge, we must go back to our natural selves. By meditating and understanding ourselves, we are able to learn.
Example: Knowledges like math are attained through discovery and invention. Learning functions or calculus does not depend on the interaction with other knowers as we can learn it by ourselves. It is unchanging no matter what happens to other knowers.
Objects
A selection of text from Laozi's DaoDeJing that talks about how knowledge is attained.
An article talking about the history of math and how it started in society
A picture of a child learning how to walk
Personal experience of how I learned from watching someone else fail
A selection of text from Plato's book about Socrates that shows how Socrates exposed people's ignorance
Definitions
Interactions are engagements in motion and verbal discussions between people where an argument or agreement is made.
Concepts
Themes
Knowledge and the Knower
Justification
Perspective
Power
Responsibility
Areas of Knowledge
Human Sciences
Ethics
History
Arts