One example of this would come from my personal life. "Through out my life I have liked cookie dough ice cream. This is because I love the taste of cold cookie dough." As you can see, this statement, which is true in my life, is knowledge with a very weak justification. Also, the knowledge of my favorite ice cream is not very valuable at all. In comparison, an example would be a justified opinion in my life. "When I dislocated my ankle, I began to cry because it was extremely painful." This is an example of a justified opinion because it is not eternally true and true for everyone. When I dislocated my ankle playing football, I began to cry and I was shaking because of the amount of pain I was in. This opinion is justified because I actually have been through the pain and I have felt the result of dislocating an ankle. Now you can relate this back to the main idea of: "The knowledge that we value the most is the knowledge for which we can provide the strongest justifications." The first opinion is a personal opinion and had a very weak justification; in fact it had no justification. This is in relation of the knowledge which we value, and it is clearly seen that my favorite ice cream flavor is not valuable knowledge. On the other hand, the second example, a justified opinion, had a justification, and in result it was seen that the second opinion was knowledge which was more valuable. Therefore, the knowledge which we value the most is the knowledge for which the strongest justifications can be provided. This is shown by examples of opinions with strong justifications and how there is a strong correlation to valuable knowledge.
Looking at the other side of this argument, one might say that people value emotion a lot; however, there are no strong justifications for emotions. For example, love is a very strong emotion and many people do consider love as valuable knowledge. This is an example of a counter argument for the claim. However, emotion is something that can be argued about for years. Due to the fact that emotion is a very abstract thing, there is no proof and solid justification to emotion. I think this is still correlated to the value of knowledge, because I think that emotion is not valuable knowledge. I do not think emotion is valuable because emotion is very abstract and uncontrollable. Emotion is not very valuable because it is not suitable and useful for almost any claim. When emotion is brought up in an argument as support, it results in a very weak argument. In fact, that side of the argument becomes illogical due to the fact that emotion is very abstract and has no strong justifications.
Overall, I believe that the knowledge that we value the most is the knowledge for which we can provide the strongest justifications for. This is clearly shown in many different examples, including an example of a personal opinion and a justified opinion. An opinion which is valuable knowledge would be a justified opinion. A counter argument to why I agree with this claim would be the fact that love is valuable and love has very weak, if no justifications. Love is an emotion and in conclusion emotions are not a valuable knowledge. This is because using emotion as support is illogical and therefore, emotion would not be valuable knowledge.
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