Knowledge Issues Essay

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Knowledge issue A knowledge issue is effectively a question about the validity of a knowledge claim. It is an open ended question that has more than just one answer to it. It can be answered and argued with anything because there is not a set of particular right or wrong answers, which is what makes it ‘a knowledge issue’. A knowledge issue can be from various areas of knowledge and can be applied to any aspect of knowledge. Knowledge issues can vary from real life situations, ‘If I go to Mc Donald’s and the queue at both cashiers is the same length, which one do I choose? And how do I know the one I chose is the right one?’ art, ‘How do I know that a piece of art from Dalí is considered as surrealistic, when the artist himself might have had completely different view about it?’, ethics ‘Is abortion a wrong choice?’, ways of knowing (e.g. language) ‘Can it be justified that our thoughts are determined by our language?’, to abstract questions such as ‘How do we know we are humans, and not robots controlled by aliens that we see as gods?’. ‘If I go to Mc Donald’s and the queue at both cashiers is the same length, which one do I choose? And how do I know the one I chose is the right one?’. This example is a knowledge issue because the question cannot be answered, and there is no right or wrong statement about it. If a person goes to a fast food chain, and sees a long queue at both cashiers, it is always an instinct to just stand at one of them and wait for the cashier to take the order. However, what is it that makes us choose one instead of the other. And how do we know that the one we chose will lead us to order the same menu that we’d like even if we would stand in the other queue. If we stand in one queue, the other one might go faster and by the time we are in the middle of the one we are standing at, we could have had our food already; or it could

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