The Importance Of Objective Knowledge

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“To understand something you need to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean that it is impossible to have objective knowledge?”

In my opinion, objective knowledge is the knowledge that is independent of individual thought and is perceptive by all. It is related to objective reality where a thing exists as itself, independent of our perception of it and also to objective judgment which is knowledge having evidence sanctioning it.
Culture is the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a certain social,ethnic,or age group, or the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and passed on to the next generations.
When I came to china for the first time 6 years ago, I had no knowledge about live- in relationships. …show more content…

5 + 5 = 10 given that the axiom of a certain base is used. One of the limitations of math is therefore that axioms are only fundamental assumptions which although seem reasonable and are pragmatic, may depend on culture and life experiences thus subjective. We are expected to simply accept them in order to prove something else. If the axiom that a mathematical problem follows is incorrect, the answer which is received may also be untrue hence it is fair to say that math is not as objective as we would like to …show more content…

I will do so because if historical objectivity does not depend on our having access to a given past, then to deny that we have access to a given past is not to show the impossibility of historical objectivity.

The CBSE curriculum of my previous school assigned us to read “Diary of a young girl” by Anne Frank. The diary is a primary source where Anne’s perceptions were shaped by her interests, expectations and culture. It is highly likely that she unconsciously or consciously may have exaggerated events in and emotional language while downplaying others. Thus reflecting the interests of a particular group in a distorted picture.
While reading the prescribed book , I formed an opinion about Anne and her situation and how unfair the world was.
Later I studied various other sources, where some information proved to be contradictory while some supported the information in the diary.
Thus by comparing the information and facts in my History textbook based on several primary sources, I was able to come to a general idea about Nazi

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