Knowing

Knowing

Have you ever been fooled before? Remember ever saying this phrase: "But I thought..."
Yup...it happens, sometimes what we know may turn out to be something false, untrue.

Today I had my first Theory Of Knowledge lecture! Woohoo!...ok actually it wasn't that great...fine quite boring :/

BUT

I did learn something. Justified True Belief.....+

What?! a plus? haha yeah, I was confused when I saw that on the slides at first. So what does the plus stand for?

For those who don't know, Justified True Belief used to be the only 3 main factors to determine if something was knowledge. Basically, if you believe in something which can be justified and it is true, it should be considered knowledge!
But let me bring out a scenerio which was mentioned during the lecture:
Ben needs to meet his girlfriend at 5pm
He checks his watch and sees it is at 4:33 (pm)
His watch has NEVER failed him
However, he did not know that his watch had stopped at 4:33 AM this morning

Let's stop for a moment to think. He believes his watch is correct. It is justified that his watch has never failed and it is true that it is 4:33pm...but does Ben really know what time it is?

I'm not going to tell you the solution to this problem, if you want go search: Gettier's problem

What I am going to do though is link it back to my introduction. Time and again, we get things wrong. We THINK we are right, but end up proven wrong. So what should you do when this happens?

There's only 2 steps. The first being the hardest: Admit you're wrong.
No point being proud about this, you're wrong and that's that. Just suck it up and admit you're wrong. Straight to the point. The faster you do it, the faster the relief you'll feel. Of course let there be a little cool down time, but the moment you get to say: "Sorry, I was wrong", say it. Your consience will be clear :) (or at least clearer, depends what you did in the first place)

Second thing to do: Learn
This is quite logical and beneficial to us right? I mean, if what we did at first was wrong, then shouldn't we work on our flaws and learn from it? Sounds good to me. Hope it sounds good to you too! Besides, learning from others is a very useful tool in your daily life!

So admit that you don't know everything today! Not in a pessimistic way but in a POSITIVE way! :) Admit it so you can break down your mental barriers and let in new and improved things (knowledge and wisdom)
Remember, you're not alone in doing this! I'm working on this too and if I can do it, why can't someone as awesome as you? :)


My next post will be on a problem that we all face everyday! Want to know what it is? ;)
I'm not going to spoil it by telling you! :P but don't worry! as long as you stay tuned, you definitely will not be disappoined! Till then, Lift Someone Higher Today! :)

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