What do we know with absolute certainty ?

In this essay some of the certainties that humans know will be mentioned and discussed. The essay will contain an introduction paragraph where the certainties are going to be mentioned, a middle part which is going to be a brainstorming about the certainties and the last paragraph is going to be the conclusion and my own opinion about what I think people know with absolute certainty.

There are many things in the world which people say we know with absolute certainty, but is that really true. Lets take for example the earth, we know with absolute certainty that there are 4 seasons which are winter, spring, summer and autumn, but can we really say that there are 4 seasons? In Southern Africa the people which lived there for their whole life don’t know the true meaning of the word seasons because there are no seasons in Africa its just day and night. A similar example can be the Antarctic which is icy throughout the year and u don’t notice if it is spring or summer.

Another fact that we know with absolute certainty is that we cannot breathe as soon as we leave the atmosphere, but how can we really tell that we cannot breather as soon as we leave the atmosphere? Of course there are devices which show us if there is oxygen present or not but how can we know if the devices are correct or how do we know that we cannot breathe in space. Maybe there are gasses unknown to human kind which the body can take in and keep on living just like oxygen.

One more thing we ...

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One more thing we know with absolute certainty is what is inside our Earth. We know that first comes the lithosphere then the asthenosphere

The inner and outer core, but how can we say we know what’s inside the earth if we never even been 40 km below Earths surface. Human beings always relied on the devices which they created themselves and are believed to tell us the information we want.

Although there are many things which can be argued about, there are also many things which we DO know with absolute certainty and these are things which are made by human beings. Math will be a good example since math was made by humans. We know with absolute certainty that 2+2=4 because we have created those numbers. We know that elements like Uranium and Plutonium are used to make weapons of mass destruction. We know with absolute certainty that drugs like alcohol and cigarettes are harmful for our organism because we crated those drugs.

Human beings also know with absolute certainty important facts like a war approaching or the economy falling because we, human beings have created term like war and economy.

In my own opinion people do not know anything with absolute certainty especially the things that we know from the devices we have constructed. I think that human are not developed enough to tell anything with absolute certainty, in my opinion our civilization is too primitive because everything we tell that we know with absolute certainty we actually don’t, we only think we know something with absolute certainty. I think if we cannot even tell how we came to this planet we should not even try to tell other things within the planet and ourselves.

In the conclusion I can say that people should not say that they know something with absolute certainty until they find out how they came to Earth.

And is the Earth really called Earth???

Word Count: 606

By: Nikolaj Prodan Date: 29.08.2005

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Luke Smithen

13th of Aug 2013

Although this essay has a point to make it generally lacks research. 1. The author should conduct some background reading before discussing concepts. 2. Large general claims, such as we do not know anything, should be avoided. 3. The conclusion needs to be revised. ***

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