Quest For Knowledge

The quest for knowledge and truth has always been part of the human history. Arguments have been used for on the search for truth since the beginning of logic starting with Socrates who believed right, that arguments help stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas. Arguments are not unfamiliar to us, but we rarely develop them in normal conversation. Many people believe wrong they when they thing that an argument is a verbal fight. Arguments help in the exposing of the different views for one topic. Using an augment properly can be used as a path to obtain a purer truth, supporting it with logical reasoning and evidence, uncovering false knowledge, and believes.

The word “knowledge” does not have a specific definition because of its complexity, and the many factors that can affect it. Knowledge is the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, and can be pretentious to culture, popular believes, and experience. Knowledge can be acquired by experience, education or like normally a mixture of both. Human knowledge is generated by our minds defectively, because it can be affected by the way each of us see the world. The human mind is an imperfect recorder and interpreter of experience, whether it is preserved though memory, the written world, paint, or artifacts (Beach, 2011a, para.1). The creation of knowledge is not a simple process it is assortment of perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning.

Most of human knowledge is defective, because it is not backed up with facts, but for what it was told to them, reason for why when they are questioned they fail to make an argument for their believe. Most people don’t understand what knowing actually is, by I mean that is that they don’t back up their knowledge with facts. People normally believe what is told to them to be truth like Adolf Hitler once said, "through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."

Science is a laborious search for truth that applies the scientific method. The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge. Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomena. The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge people have gained using that system. The scientific method is a series of steps that attempt to find truth, by researching gathering and interpreting data. Successful science claims to give us knowledge of what exist in the universe, and claims to explain why what exist behaves and the way it does it (Nussbaum,2011, pg.2). Scientist use controlled experiments and methodological techniques and technologies to approach the truth with factual evidence keeping record to prove their hypothesis.

Although science is imperfect it is the best way of approaching truth. Science comes with limitations, we need to understand that science can only go as far was the scientist. We should never see scientist as a supernatural being that commits no mistakes, it is important to understand that “scientist can be irrational and wrong as the rest of us” (Beach, 2001d, para2). Science can also be bias, to an specific purpose and not all scientist have a strong sense of moral. Examples

of that are the creation of nuclear weapons, pollution, and drugs. Another factor that corrupts science is that “mature science constitutes a world of experience and practice that is largely foreign to the general public and those without necessary special training”. Science is so extense that you need years and years of practice and education in more very specific subject to fully understand the topic.

The only rule that truth has is that you need to believe that it is. Truth does not necessary have to be real but, sincerity in action or character. Truth does not have an specific definition because it all depends from where it’s coming from. Truth is not universal; it is created by our understanding and believes on what we experience. Professor Beach explains that “truth is not a verbal abstraction of some idealized and unchanging notion of reality”(Beach,2011a, para6). The definition of truth comes from each person’s common sense, which is no more than their own perception and subjectivity. It is important to understand that the comprehension of truth is impossible because we as humans do not have the capacity to bare complete knowledge over anything we can only interpret what has been presented to us. More simply said, truth is just the creation of our own imagination.

Scientist define the meaning of truth as knowledge that has been supported by evidence, facts and research. It is necessary to know that not even scientist with their years in training on their specific field know everything there is to know, reason for why science is an ongoing ever-changing process. That does not mean that the scientific research can be trusted as truth, because it can, and it is our best way to do so.

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