Importance Of Valuing Knowledge

Knowledge claims are constantly being produced, all with varying content and significance. However, certain knowledge is considered to be more valuable than others. We believe that knowledge that is produced with difficulty is intrinsically superior to knowledge that is reached more easily. And while I do agree with his, I do so under the notion that we assess the difficulty of production of knowledge differently in different areas of knowledge and even within these areas themselves. It is also important to consider what our the valuing of knowledge looks like across different areas. This tendency to value knowledge produced with difficulty will be investigated in the natural sciences, language, and art.
Comparing the natural sciences to subjects

Elaborate Renaissance paintings like Raphael's “The School of Athens” are praised for their technical skill and details which took the artist weeks to complete. The difficulty of production is clear to the audience as they often think of their own artistic skill and realize how hard it must have been to paint that image so realistically. Many might point to modern artwork then as an example of the valuing of knowledge that is produced easily. However, these people fail to see that these works, although sometimes produced with much less visible effort, are often even more challenging than their classical competitors. It is easy to see the difficulty in the completion of a picture-like portrait, but the general public struggles to see the validity in the praising of contemporary art like Yves Klein’s blue monochrome canvases. Klein’s works offer a simplistic and yet confusing approach to art. Many people question his works claiming that anyone can paint a canvas one color. So what makes a work of art meaningful? While Klein’s works are simple in execution, he himself “believed that the idea behind a work was more important than the execution” (Lacayo). This argument is the key concept to understanding the difficulty and subsequent value and in works that seem, on the surface,

Once we accept that the difficulty is relative to the time, person, and purpose in the production of knowledge, we can see that all knowledge is carries some difficulty in its production, even if the surface level does not show it. Additionally, just as the difficulty is subjective, as is our valuing of knowledge. While some may give value in the form of formal publication and others based on the audience that their knowledge reaches, all knowledge receives some valuing since it is acknowledged and