Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Knowledge vs. Belief
In class yesterday we briefly mentioned Knowledge vs. Belief. To my opinion, belief is one's subjective faith in something that they are convinced is true. Belief requires faith because it does not involve fact. Knowledge on the other hand does not require faith because it does involve fact. Knowledge is an obtained concept of an objective fact. Knowledge is discovered truth. In our society we up hold knowledge higher than belief because whom ever knows more is considered wiser. Is that true? Is the knower wiser than the believer?
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ReplyDeleteI will be responding to your posted question.
ReplyDeletei think your post follows what i say when i mean that belief is false in its fundamental nature of existing. like you said, it requires the ego to attach faith to something in order for it to be real, and again like you said, it is only real to them. i can see that belief is so popular because it covers up the admittance that we actually understand that there is more to life/ reality than we can know, or at least perceive through our senses... i think that experience of nonphysical stimuli such as the significance of essence is what the belief is trying to place a label on, yet the belief is not appropriate and therefore perpetuates argument which looses the essence of the stimuli, which is still more satisfying to the ego than genuinely experiencing the stimuli... lewis carroll knows what i know, do you?
ReplyDeleteOf course, it's no coincidence I put Lewis Caroll's quote there -- it's one of my favorites! Our imagination is a huge part of our beleifs, it shapes our perceptions. But is the knower wiser than the believer?
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