What is Knowledge?

I have always been a fan of scientific reasoning. A fantastic term, a pearlist, is what i would class myself as. Physical evidence and reasoned logic, or P.E.A.R.L. is a term coined by a prestigious youtube member; Thunderf00t. But this idea comes with some huge flaws. For a start, reasoning changes from person to person. A young earth creationist would happily reason, through typically misinformed and faulty logic, that the hydro plate theory makes sense or that evolution is false, or that they know god orders them to blow away abortionist clinics. So let us bring the celestial teapot into play:

"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time." - Bertrand Russell, "Is there a god", 1997.


Knowledge is an assumption. Hells, thought itself could be thought of as an assumption. "I think therefor I am" - Rene Descartes (As if you didn't know) Is assuming that we know ourselves correctly. We may not be thinking at all, but someone or something else may be thinking for us, or are our thoughts really thoughts? Thoughts are just chemical reactions in our brains, so can we trust it? Does a madman know that he is truly mad?


But, we assume that we are here and that our minds are working, and we can just build upon that. Now though, knowledge, or fact, is never, ever subjective. You must be objective to state that something is fact. As humans, this is nigh on impossible. We are so submerged in our own self existence and emotion that to be truly objective and logical about something is hard. So, the closest we can get is with pearls. Knowledge is what is true to the best of our logical, objective ability.

Apologies this is really not a very organized piece or work, and it doubtlessly makes little sense, and it is fairly short, but i am shattered, so i will probably make some adjustments at a later date. Knowledge is what is true to the best of our logical, objective ability. I loathe with a passion the questions that we cannot know for certain, this is like "What is good". It is like trying to define yellow, without being able to use a flower or the sun or anything yellow as an example.