One definition of knowledge is true belief based on strong evidence.

What makes
evidence “strong” enough and how can these limits be established?
I will first put some questions infront of you. What is evidence? How do we get
evidences. Why is evidence necessary for us to know about something. In my
opinion evidence is something that you know by all sorts of justifications or by
proven reasons. And while analyzing it you know why you are saying this and
you have a reason for it, which is proved by some means .Epistemology is the
study of knowledge in depth. which concerns the questions like what do we know
and how do we know and which we are also going to discuss. Moreover it deals
with origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge. There are four
ways of knowing: Sense Perception, Reason Emotion, and which we will be
dicussing. In my opinion the problem of knowledge is that people take things
differently eventhough if they are made to undergo the same situation.
According to me i have 6 types of evidences which i have a strong opinion for
and those are belief, experience, perception, common sense, sixth sense and
religion. The defination of belief is the feeling that something is definitely
true or definitely exists, which i completely agree with. However you need to
concentrate on the words definately true. Definately true doesnot mean it is true
but it seems true by some perspectives.Belief is something that maybe is true but
you cannot be 100 % sure.I have a belief that earth is round and my source is
wikepedia but maybe the earth is not, How can i bee 100% sure. But knowlege is
something you know by some sort of strong evidence. Experience according to
the defination is knowledge or skill that you gain from doing a job or activity,
or the process of doing something. If you experience something you definately
know it. I think experiencing is the best way to judge something. fore-example
you know roses are red but how do you know it? You know it by (experience) .
We do have a justification wheather it is through seeing, through smelling,
through hearing, or by experiments. Dictionary defines perception by the way
you think about something and your idea of what it is like. As Philospher
William Blake uprised that; " if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything
would appear to man as it is - infinite". What i think he means by this is that
when you analyze something you make a picture of it in your mind but what you
analyse maybe is not true.When you talk about perception you can include your
all five senses which are the sources of knowing.We know that common sense is
the ability to behave in a sensible way and make practical decisions. If you
scrutinize something, we maybe judge it by our sixth sense which is a special
ability to know things without using any of your five ordinary senses. Fore
example He seemed to have known that her sister was in trouble. He did not use
sense perception but how did he know it.He knew it by a feeling called sixth
sense which arises inside you but you cannot name it.Now we talk about religion,
religion is the spirtual belief of a person. I have a belief that God is ONE and
my source is my religion. I know it spirtually but i cannot prove it by scientific
means. The whole universe is so systemetic, if they were two Gods there could
be a conflict between them due to their different opinions. Things maybe
changing (altering) all the time but they are the same which gives me an
indication that God exists and Is ONE.
The areas of knowledge i am going to concern is math. The Reasoning
makes evidences strong either by scientific means or by a source that is proven.
Here i include the term logic. The word logic was discovered after discovering
math. If there is no reasoning against something so it is true.We know that 1+1 is
2 and 1*1= 1.We cannot include perception here but we can only know it through
mathematics. Mathematics is either real or imaginary. We cannot deal with the
imaginary numbers in our daily lives but they still exist. So we know that maths is
always able to be proved through various methods and it is 100 % correct . The
question that arises in our daily lives is that how can we trust evidences.Source
is another important thing while analyzing something. If your source is an opinion
then you should never rely on it. And if it is proven by scientific reasons
(hypothesis) then you can rely on it. When a human being asked a single
question what is this? It was the beginning of science as a knowledge.Then the
struggle of knowing was taking place.the things in the sorroundings were at first
explored ,then theories came into existence and for 1 obseration there were
thousands of experiments . In thousands of theories particularly one was
choosen which was the most relevant and that became a law and this became
the authentic type of a knowledge. However with advanced studies of science
and technology there is always a capabillity of improving the knowledge . therfore
we can say that knowledge is not dead, it is live and there is always a possibility
to improve it. Knowledge gets authentic but there are always emendments
taking place. Evidences
The limits of evidences can be established by knowing that wheather the
justifications for your knowledge are true or not.if they are true then it a
knowledge and if it is not true then it is your belief . To know anything it is very
necessary to know something from the basics and gradually exploring it you will
get a firm knowledge i will give you an example, first the people that came on
Earth were known as homo Erectus they explored that by rubbing two stones you
can create fire. when the second generation homo sapiens came on earth they
got to know that they could create fire by rubbing to pieces of woods. And now
we know that we can create fire from natural Sui Gas. So during the centuries
our evidences for knowledge are getting stronger day by day. As everyone has a
different type of opinion each individual would take things differently eventhough
if they are made to undergo or experience the same thing and this is the problem
of knowledge.

sources: long man dictionary and

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