This week's
purpose was interesting and I got many thoughts after reading the text and
after I answered the related questions.
Of course there were
many things in the text that initially seemed confusing and difficult to
understand, and I've probably misunderstood a lot, but once I got into the
"philosophical thinking" it went better and the topic seemed fun and
interesting.
I think it is important
to question and analyze this kind of topics that we otherwise take for granted.
One of the things
that Russell discusses in the text, that I found especially interesting was the
part about the difference between “true belief” and knowledge. "A true belief is not knowledge when it is deduced from a
false belief". It’s not enough that we are certain
that something will happen for it to be called knowledge. We can be certain that something will happen because it uses to
happen. But we can't call it knowledge, because it's still just a guess.
It was too bad
that the seminar was canceled this week, it would be fun too discuss these
questions whit my classmates.
There aro also some other interesting notes in this part what you write about. What do you think about that knowledge is what is validly deduced from not only true, but also known premisses?
SvaraRaderaAnd what do you think about idea that we pass from one belief to another?
“I agree with you on that the text contains topics that are important to question and to not take for granted, because it is easy to forget reflecting over this topics in our program at KTH. So far we have mostly learned hard topics like math and physics and what I have learnt from that is there is only one right answer to everything, but I know that in the “real world” outside KTH there is no right simple answer: Therefore it was good for us to read this text to be reminded of reality, and also to start to reflect more.”
SvaraRaderaLike Felicia, I agree that the questions and ideas presented in Russell's are interesting but what I started to think about even more was what does this then mean in the context of being a engineer from KTH that is. My thoughts then gravitated towards the conclusion that our pursue for understanding will only guide us closer to a more credible or plausible guess, therefore credible or reasonable conclusions which will most certainly be proven wrong in some future by a future shift in our paradigms.
SvaraRaderaIt's great to be forced to think outside "the box" (sorry for the lack of better words) here at KTH. Most courses usually tech hard topics like Felicia mention above, so from my point of view this text made me use think outside the so called box. Even though I believe it's important trying to think in a different way. Can't we just agree that the know the sun will rise tomorrow just like it did today without spending to much time arguing whether we really know it will :)
SvaraRadera