Essay On Confidence In Knowledge

It is often thought that people who seem to have a vast amount of knowledge have the utmost confidence in what they know and are respected and referred because of those knowledge. They know more facts and theories and able to understand and make sense more complex things than the average person because of those knowledge they acquired in the first place. However, it is precisely due to those vast knowledge that they may in fact have doubt be it on their abilities to decipher those knowledge or whether those knowledge are truly accurate or not. Thus, when we seek knowledge, will we have confidence in those knowledge that we gather or doubt at their accuracies or both at the same time? This curiosity lead to my knowledge question which is do

Based on my experience, I learnt about factors that result in the decline of the Malacca’s sultanate empire and one of the factors is inadequate technology of Malacca’s sultanate (spear) versus the latest weaponry of that time by the Portugese (cannon) in primary and secondary school. By learning these factors as “facts” during school and memorising them for exam I am confident that these facts are true hence the increase in confidence by learning and memorizing those facts. After further research I found out several contradicting theories about said factor such as the existence of cannon technology in the Malacca’s sultanate before it’s downfall and the help received from the Turkish empire in terms of precious weaponries and soldiers as well as historical negationism which is re-interpretation of the moral meaning of a historical accord. In this case, historical negationism exist in the form of rejection of evidence of Malacca’s sultanate usage of “advanced weaponry”, cannon due to emotions interference with historical reasoning (hatred or patriotic love to Malacca’s sultanate) during its interpretation. Thus, these contradicting theories increase doubt as to which theories are more accurate and should be