1090-094 2
that is April 19th. It is of more value to me. In this fashion, we can continue to determine relative values. If I care more about sharks than tidal waves, I am going to continue to learn more about sharks which I am interested in. This interest has caused me to gain a deeper knowledge in the field. It has caused me to investigate and gain more knowledge. This means there is more justification. Justifications for a piece of knowledge are the facts backing the piece of knowledge. These examples show how the value of a piece of knowledge affect the justifications one holds for that piece of knowledge.
The significance in one's life also plays an important role on the justifications one holds for it. The more important the idea to the person, the more they will enjoy it. Therefore, they are more likely to remember the piece of knowledge if they enjoy it. This causes the knowledge that is relevant to daily life to have more justifications backing it. These justifications help prove that the knowledge that one values the most is the knowledge that one can provide the strongest justifications. These ideas make one have to agree very strongly with this claim.
The knowledge that one values more has strong justifications for it. That means that knowledge is back up by tons of factual data that leads to this conclusion. It can be represented by the idea that a car runs on gas. One can perform experiments and demonstrate that a car does indeed run on gas. It can also be proven that a human breathes to transport oxygen to the brain. It has been researched and can be proven through facts that a human breathes to move
oxygen from the air to the brain. This shows how knowledge is proven by justifications.
1090-094 3
When one is grieving, one often does not want to admit the experience and accept the loss sometimes obtained, It can be from the loss of a loved one or the loss of a friend. We often ignore or push away these feelings. This causes us to deny the justification that the loved one has died. This shows us that sadness, in cases of denial, causes a lack of knowledge and justification. Knowledge causes happiness because of the intelligence level. This causes someone who is happy a lot to save more justifications for the knowledge that makes them happy. This also works for mad individuals because the more angry they gets, the more justifications they choose not to store for it. This causes the angry to be grouped with the sad. If one is tired, it is harder to have exciting ideas to store more justifications. This proves that happy people store more justifications for the happy times than the sad. Reason also causes one to think this way because it makes sense to the thinker.
When people believes in something, they like to have proof that they can use to back up this idea. When this happens, what the person believes becomes facts. This means that religion is not and cannot be made up of knowledge. Religion, of any sort, can not be proven. This means that all religions are based on opinion, which is uncertain. In the Christian faith, one may believe that Christ died on the cross. This means that it is the knower's opinion that Jesus died on the cross. It is one belief to decide if Jesus lived at all. This shows why the many different religions are opinion and why not one religion can be true. Each religion can not know anything for sure because none of these biblical beliefs and other similiar befiefs cannot be proven. Knowledge here can never exist here.
1090-094 4
Just as one cannot prove religion with facts, one can prove that some ideas are certain. If I say 2+2=4, I can prove this by showing that 2 plus 2 equals 4. It can be proven through a justification process. This shows how knowledge can be justified. It can also be justified through text books and other books filled with proven facts in all fields of study. Doctors and nurses rely on knowledge to help them save lives. Experiments have been run to prove different parts of science used to save peoples lives. Science provides justification of the work done by doctors and nurses. This can be found in text books and other medical reference books. This is highly valued by most people due to the desire to be healthy and live long lives. This helps show how knowledge that we value the most is the knowledge that we can provide the most justification for.
In conclusion, one can assume that the knowledge that one values the most is the knowledge that one can provide the most justification for. It is very highly associated. One can see this through emotion, religion, relationship, and significance. All of these ideas agree with the conclusion that value and justification are not independent of eachother. This means that they affect the other's outcome. If one says that they are not independent of eachother, one can assume that they are highly associated. For these reasons, religion is thought to be untrue and full of opinions; nothing can be proven as true. The higher the excitement level, the higher the number of justifications for it. This idea helps prove that the knowledge we value the most is the knowledge for which we can provide the strongest justifications.
1090-094 5
Works Cited
(1775) in: Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson, (April 14, 1775)
