People need to believe that order can be glimpsed in the chaos of events (adapted from John Gray, Heresies, 2004). In what ways and to what extent would you say this claim is relevant in at least two areas of knowledge?

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“People need to believe that order can be glimpsed in the chaos of events” (adapted from John Gray, Heresies, 2004). In what ways and to what extent would you say this claim is relevant in at least two areas of knowledge?

In my essay I am going to discuss the importance of chaos and order in real life, and to what extent I agree with the title statement. The key concepts of this title is that belief is a necessity in perceiving order in chaotic events, and whether I approve or disapprove with this statement I shall evident my claim through two areas of knowledge.

My claim is that belief is important to perceive order, and that it is necessary for people to believe that order can be glimpsed in the chaos of events, because the order is relying on the basis of belief and without believing the order will not be perceptible. This claim is relevant in all areas of knowledge as the chaos theory can be applied to all knowledge, but my main focus will primarily involve history and environmental science as my two areas of knowledge that will be viewed from perception and reason as my ways of knowing.

The knowledge issues that are present are taken out of two real life situations, the first real life situation would be a prognosis of upcoming weather conditions, and the second, the Mayan civilization’s foreshadowing of future events. The issues that are raised in this essay will be dealt with examples and counterarguments, so that two sides are present to convey weaknesses and strengths of the examples used.

The knowledge issue dealing with environmental science, about the prognosis of upcoming weather conditions could be considered, to what extent is the scientific method relevant in attempting to establish truths?   As a knower’s claim, I argue for belief being an important aspect in perceiving order, for an example, order is not present in any form in our world nor in the whole universe, and as a knower I claim that order is something human beings have developed over time in an attempt to survive, as humans evolve human brain develops to adjust to current environment and conditions, and chaos has always been present, in different forms such as natural disasters that changes life conditions, predators whom you learn to fear from, or even just by not being able to live a pleasant life can be seen as chaos. If elaborated furthermore we come into the discoveries of the mathematician Henri Poincare.

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We are told that chaos is responsible for the unpredictability of the weather, but what Poincare did was to discover the chaos in the mathematics that underlies the solar system. Firstly before moving on, a brief summary of determinism will be crucial to understand how this knowledge issue can be perceived differently. The principle of determinism has dominated the science history ever since Newton’s second law of motion was revealed, little over three hundred years ago, and that means that if we know all the forces acting on a system, then at least in theory we should be able ...

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