What is Knowledge… Absolute Truth or Pure Hype?
The question maybe asked; is it possible to have false knowledge? I mean is it possible to have knowledge in a lie and accept it as truth. If knowledge is process and the information is the entity then believing that something is true when it is not is still knowledge. I say this in light of the Earth as “round” -or- “flat idea which was a debate early in the enlightenment. My second thought is that of validating knowledge. If knowledge is percieved truth (regardless of actual truth) then the validation process is essential in showing error in knowledge. However, I would assert that there are things which can not be emperically tested to guage the truth or error in knowledge. Going back to the notion of “knowledge” as ‘justified belief,’ one may like to consider its bases of justification. Such justification about “it” may arise from various criteria, such as: a) Everyone agrees about it: so it is a “given truth” b) It has been empirically proven and it is unchanging with shifting time
