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Is There Too Much Knowledge Tok Essay

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Is knowledge something more than just the systematic organization of fact? I believe that the most of people would not be able to answer this question immediately. That is why, let us first ask ourselves: what is knowledge itself? Basically, knowledge is what you know, what you think about. It doesn’t matter, whether it is justified or not, whether you believe in it or not. Knowledge is your thoughts and your experience that you analyze and share with other people. Actually, one reason of why the knowledge is something more than just the system of facts is that there are too many contradicting facts that can’t snow the knowledge as a system. As we all know: “Many men, many minds”. According to the fact that the knowledge is something that people share with each other, different thoughts may contradict each other, destroying the system of knowledge. The contradiction of different facts does not only cause conflicts and debates between people, they also cast doubt on the veracity of the facts, whether there were justified or not. This big system of different facts can’t really, exist, because knowledge can’t be systematic. That is the reason why I believe that there is no one true system of justified facts in …show more content…

That means that although it is really hard to get from their works, there is still a general idea in each work, which was expressed by their author. However, as it was already said in this essay, art of the 20th century was mainly aimed at the viewer's imagination and his subconscious and that is why the majority of the painters, writers and poets created their pieces of art, without explaining anything and let the imagination of the viewer do the least work. This direction of art in the 20th century was called surrealism. One of the main representatives of surrealism was Salvador Dali, the famous Spanish painter.

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