Knowledge, or at least the knowledge we think we know, is like the stock market. our knowledge of the world changes everydays, no one can predict it and nothing is really "safe knowledge".
While our visions of some points like Savater said ( Fire burns) wont ever change, most of our knowledge is not 100% reliable, times goes and things change.
So what to trust? in my opinion, we should trust our own experience. Our experience will tell us if eating certain things is good, or if skipping classes is worthy of it. However we wont probably know if Mount Everest is the highest mountain by experience. We must trust some sources in what our experience cant reach. The knowledge we get from another sources is the one we must question over and over.
For example, Ifa friend tells me that HP computers are the best of them. I may take his opinion if i want to buy a computer. However as this is knowledge not from my experience there are hundreds of factors that can affect it. ,Maybe he works for HP and for every hp computer sold he gets a commision, or maybe he really likes HP but hasnt tried other computers that could be even better. or maybe he isnt a real friend and knows that HP computers are bad but wants me to buy a bad computer. As you see there hundreds of factors, other person could tell me that HP computers are the worst and hundreds of factors affect it too.
So in my conclusion, trust your own experience, and hear what others say but always "filtering" this information
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haha! great example the one of the computer, though a little too much paranoia in it!
ReplyDeleteI think I agree with you when you say we can only trust our experience because is what WE can actually live and trust for ourselves.
such as "fire burns" but I mean what does burning feels like?? onece you felt it you can say "Oh, this is bad" and so on.
I can accept some pieces of information just to get the bases but then I can make this information stronger once I've all ready experienced it! :D
Guess that, that's what we do at school, you study and then you get your profesional experience.
I liked your post! :D
I agree with you Luis, I think the relation you give about the knowledge with the stock market is a good example of how our knowledge changes every time and you can see how we can't prevent from changing because of external factors or things out of us. I also think the same as you, I think that by far we should trust a lot of the knowledge we get throughout experience because experience is something you had felt with you senses and is something you have known very well. Finally yes I agree that we must be aware of those types of people that want us to change the way we think or change our minds toward something.
ReplyDeleteLuis Ariel, great post, I too believe that out of the 3 things Savater lists, experience is the most reliable, and what people tell us is what we should question the most because, experience can only take you so far and we must complement it with information of someone else's experience, specially now that we're young and haven't had that much experience. So to sum it up, I agree with your conclusion, keep up the good thinking.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Luis Ariel. Our experience is the only one that we can trust a hundred percent, because is the one that we know is true without any doubt. We have probe it maybe several times and we know is right. We can also trust the people we have faith that they are smart or correct. Although there are persons trying to trick us, like you expressed, but we have to trust in our guts that can point us into the right direction.
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