Books, computers- We use computers |
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| To discover new things | Experts ------------------------------------------------------- Albert Einstein, Archimedes
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Not always right |
| I would never have figured out the
| things they discovered. So we do need “experts”
Many theories been proven wrong |
| We learn things from experts
What makes an expert right and what makes
him/her an expert?
How important are the opinions of experts in the search for knowledge?
In this sentence the key words are: important, opinions, experts, the search and knowledge.
When we use the word “important” in this situation we mean if the opinion of an expert actually matters. Either they are important or they’re not. With “opinions” we mean the opinions of experts when it comes to knowledge. For example their theories and their beliefs (eg. Einstein’s theory of relativity). “Experts” are these people who have a belief/theory that is widely supported and who knows a lot. “Knowledge” is a very wide concept but in the statement it’s meant as new knowledge. With other words undiscovered knowledge.
“How important are opinions of experts in search for knowledge?”
Are you an expert? To be able to answer this question, we first need to ask ourselves what an expert is. An expert is someone who has a lot of knowledge or experience within a field. In this case when we’re saying search for knowledge, it’s meant as discovering new knowledge that’s earlier been unknown. The opinions of experts can be put as beliefs or theories. To find out how much they matter, we need to think about what makes a theory or belief matter. I would say that it’s the validation and evidence for the theory or belief that makes it matter. Since most experts do have some sort of validation and credibility I would say that experts opinions matters a lot. But there been several times when the opinions of experts haven’t mattered. Two areas of knowledge where there been many discoveries are in biology and physics. To find out how important they are we can look at different examples of discovering new knowledge and how much the opinions of experts have mattered at those times in these two areas.
