Knowledge....

Kiaya Nickens

Mr. Sanchez

Christian in the World-p.8

October 2, 2012

To Know or not to Know:

In class, collectively we could not come up with what the definition to as what knowledge is. Some said knowledge is something you have mastery over, some said knowledge is something an aspect of something learned over a course of time. All of these aspects of knowledge are true, in a sense there must be mastery, and knowledge is indeed a process that involves intricate learned experiences. But above all of these aspects, for an individual to truly know something or have knowledge of something they must have certainty to that knowledge. That is the problem with everyone who thinks they know something or has knowledge of a particular subject, they lack certainty in it. The analogy of citizens that are placed in a foreign country was used in class. In society today, we have an abundance of foreigners within our culture. These foreigners work at common fast food restaurants that require little communication skills with customers. We used an experience Mr. Sanchez had one day, he was at seven-eleven and was purchasing a pack of cigarettes . He wanted a particular brand of cigarettes, he stated the brand and coincidentally another brand that looked almost identical and also sounded like the brand  Mr. Sanchez wanted. Mr. Sanchez kept saying the band, as the foreigner nodded his head in agreement and gave him the wrong brand of cigarettes. The foreigner thought he had knowledge of what brand of cigarettes his customer wanted but he didn’t know, he was lacking the variable of certainty. The foreigner simply had the belief of what he thought he knew, not the actual knowledge of the truth of what was certain.  Through certainty solely knowledge is obtained, as humans we need to have certainty in what we know for us to be knowledgeable of a particular subject.