"Doubt is the key to knowledge” (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in Perception?
In my opinion doubt is the key to knowledge because the more you question things, the more you want to learn from them. If we never doubted ourselves then we would probably be stuck with the same ideals of the Greeks, and would have never progressed. That is why I believe it is very important to doubt and never think that you are certain of something. But, if we start doubting our perception then we would never know if anything were true. Doubting our perception implies not trusting our own self. The way I see it, this would probably dive us all mad. Then we would never know what is real and reality would be a fake concept. That is why I believe that questioning our own perceptio
n does not give us more knowledge.
A cultural example could be back when all the Europeans believed that the world was flat. They thought that is you sailed too far you would fall of the end of the world. Christopher Columbus doubted this, and wanted to prove if it were true or not. He did this by sailing further than anyone else, and discovering a new world. If he had not doubted this, then he would have never learned that the Earth was in fact not flat. And because of this he, as well as everyone in Europe, gained more knowledge.
Every day in school we are taught things that are supposed to be true. But, I remember this one time that a teacher told us that a war had occurred in a certain year, but one of my classmates had doubts about this date. He went home and researched and found out that he was correct, and that his teacher had in fact made a mistake. Doubting the teacher my classmate learned more and learned the truth.
The truth is that I am not one of those people who question what other people tell me, I simply believe in them. But, I do understand why questioning things helps you gain more knowledge. There was this one time when I was a little girl that a friend told me how if you froze and ant and then unfrozen it, it would actually revive. Since I was little and naïve I believed him, but then I started asking myself if it could really be true. Therefore I did the same experiment, and found out that the ant was dead when it was unfrozen. This taught me to not believe everything I was told, and it also gave me more knowledge.
n does not give us more knowledge.A cultural example could be back when all the Europeans believed that the world was flat. They thought that is you sailed too far you would fall of the end of the world. Christopher Columbus doubted this, and wanted to prove if it were true or not. He did this by sailing further than anyone else, and discovering a new world. If he had not doubted this, then he would have never learned that the Earth was in fact not flat. And because of this he, as well as everyone in Europe, gained more knowledge.
Every day in school we are taught things that are supposed to be true. But, I remember this one time that a teacher told us that a war had occurred in a certain year, but one of my classmates had doubts about this date. He went home and researched and found out that he was correct, and that his teacher had in fact made a mistake. Doubting the teacher my classmate learned more and learned the truth.
The truth is that I am not one of those people who question what other people tell me, I simply believe in them. But, I do understand why questioning things helps you gain more knowledge. There was this one time when I was a little girl that a friend told me how if you froze and ant and then unfrozen it, it would actually revive. Since I was little and naïve I believed him, but then I started asking myself if it could really be true. Therefore I did the same experiment, and found out that the ant was dead when it was unfrozen. This taught me to not believe everything I was told, and it also gave me more knowledge.
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