Compare and Contrast Our Approach to Knowledge About the Past with Our Approach to Knowledge About the Future

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Compare and contrast our approach to knowledge about the past with our approach to knowledge about the future To compare our approach to knowledge about the past with our approach to knowledge about the future, it first must be determined what ‘knowledge’ is. According to Plato knowledge is “a justified true belief”. So, knowledge must have a logical evidence and to be approved by society and facts. However, to define ‘knowledge’ is not as easy as it seems. The following quote from Bertrand Russell demonstrates it: "The question how knowledge should be defined is perhaps the most important and difficult one with which we shall deal. This may seem surprising: at first sight it might be thought that knowledge might be defined as belief which is in agreement with the facts. The trouble is that no one knows what a belief is, what a fact is, and what sort of agreement between them would make a belief true." I agree with the quote cited above as truth for one is not necessary the same for another. However the term must be defined in order to proceed further. Thus, in my opinion, knowledge s is a familiarity with something, which might include information, facts, descriptions, or skills, acquired through experience or education. But neither of these definitions captures how a society changes over time or through different cultures, the way that it approaches knowledge. We approach concept of ‘knowing’ in many different ways. These ‘approaches’ are called ways of knowing. The ways of knowing are reason, perception, emotion, and language. We use ways of knowing to perceive, understand, and think about the past and the future. Our approach to knowledge about the past and our approach to knowledge about the future are very similar, but yet very different. Our approach to knowledge about the past is generally based on analysis of events that had already happened. Scientific

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