[THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE] BLOG #3: The Quest of Truth

"A balance between shared and personal knowledge is extremely important in the quest for truth" (Oxford p.38)

This statement tells us that the truth lies between your shared and personal knowledge and experiences. Shared knowledge has been shared and possibly manipulated over the years that the knowledge had peen passed down. These manipulation can affect the way that we know things and can even make us gullible to believing in baseless facts. This is where our personal knowledge comes along. Our intuition plays a huge role into which shared knowledge that we obtain is the truth. Our personal knowledge acts as a filter to filter out the baseless knowledge we get from people because we are susceptible to being manipulated by others. Evidences that looks very convincing can present the fake knowledge is real and the only truth.
One of the examples of this is the Flat Earth Theory. Back in the days, people thought that the earth was flat and people were scared to fall off the edge of the earth. This was proven to be false as further scientific findings made by Nicolas Copernicus went public. But, the public disliked the reasoning behind his findings. They banished him.

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