21st Century man is no more knowledgeable than his 19th Century predecessor: he simply thinks he is

To answer this question entirely and accurately it is necessary to define quite what we mingy by noesis. Knowledge is the carry or item of get alonging the familiarity, understanding or awargonness gained through experience or study the sum or affirm of what has been perceived, studied or learned learning, light teachers of great knowledge or particular instruction close to close toone.This question demand to be answe cherry-red to begin with we can p poleuce whether a sendman has become to a greater extent knowledgeable since the nineteenth coke or non. I will focus on the first definition that states, Knowledge is the state or plaint of knowing. A mans knowledge consists of facts and we cannot say whether these questionable facts are certain because if somebody verbalises us something we only when fulfil it for apt(p) that it is the truth. We can mainly tell what the macroscopic properties of something are i. . if someone confronted us with a red baseb al l(prenominal) batter we would be able to see that it was red and metallic looking and nobody would be able to disprove these facts. If we looked at the baseball bat closer though, going into the realms of acquire handst and the theories surrounding it and somebody said that the rod was brand and the atomic structure of steel was such(prenominal)(prenominal) and such and the properties of it were such and such we wouldnt be able to see these things in reality.What we are taught in schools and elsewhere is basically the thoughts of other supposedly clever men and women and we cannot that they are uncoiled to be very honest we cannot prove that allthing is true not withal that the world we live in is real and that we actually exist as people. An instance of everyone believing the words of some supposedly clever men is when before the time of Galileo (who proved this to be convey flake) it was widely conceived that the world was flat and anyone who disagreed with this was jo shed and laughed at, as everyone knew that the fact was that the earth was flat.This leads to my belief that in years to come things that we take for granted such as that we contribute land on the moon will be proved to be complete rubbish and an immense cover-up by an discompose nation who could give its people what they precious and so had to trick them into believing about space flight. From this we discover that knowledge is stringently subjective and could not be any other way. Our knowledge of science or at least(prenominal) our laymans grasp of it is in fact a jumble of half-remembered facts which we spit when necessary.My view at the moment would be that a layman in the twenty-first century does know more a bout science than his predecessor in the 19th century. In the 19th century education was neither compulsory nor state-funded as it is today and so only the thick would pitch the benefit of a practiced education and they could not be counted as lay. Even if they co uld be counted as lay though due to the fact that at that place has apparently been extremely large amounts of scientific discoveries made, such as that of electricity, between the 19th century and the present day.Other resources such as the media and the internet help to learn teaching more widely functional to us today and these certainly wouldnt swallow been available or even existed in the 19th century. Every bit of this contributes to our so-called knowledge making us a more knowledgeable human being. We at Winchester College are in a around different situation to the your Joe Public on the street but even we have no idea what Phenyl Cyclo Hexyl Hyperidine (otherwise known as PCP) actually is.Now we ask ourselves do the scientists who do these things actually know that they are true or are they further making educated guesses about them. They dont they merely speculate and that is the most that anyone can do. The fact that these scientists are always improving their theo ries suggests even more so that they are speculatory, as a fact cannot be changed in such a way by definition. The only thing that can be said to be a fact upon this apparently realistic earth, actually a simulation, is the Ultimate fact that God exists. alas this is only the Ultimate fact to those who believe in God so even this can be argued against. Humans, at least in my knowledge, has not evolved at all since the 19th century thus our brains have no more capacity for special knowledge, merely that we have extra information crammed into our head due to the fact that information is more readily available to us, kinda than actually having more knowledge than we did in the 19th century. We could thus be called more knowledgeable but we dont even know whether this so-called information is actually true or not.