"I must seek arguments that enable me to accept or refute my knowledge" - Fernando Savater
Some people argue that they think that they know everything, they think that they are always right and that everything they say is true. You have to search for arguments and convince me that they are true, and then I can know if what I know is true.
One way by which people know what they know is by experience. When you live something or practice something, you understand it better, and now you know about it, like doing a chemistry experiment; you have to do it to know how or why a reaction happens.
Another way by which people know what they know is by education. We go to school since we were little and since then, we start to gain information and start to understand things, procedures and stuff. As we grow up, we continue learning more stuff from our school or from our parents.
The other way by which people know what they know is by believing in what other tell you. Its your choice if you trust them or not, you have to decide. You can't know if what they say is true; if you trust in them, you can believe in what they tell you.
Like what Savater said in his book "The Questions of Life", "we have multiple sources of knowledge but they must all be screened by reason, which verifies, organizes and looks for coherence within what we know".
Mariel I think the same as you. When we are little our parents take us to the school and it is there where we learn most of the information we have, but teachers limit themselves to give us information, putting exams to measure our memory capacity but not our understanding, that is the difference.
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