Wednesday, April 18, 2012
A response to the statement " It is impossible to know anything with absolute certainty."
This statement of
"It is impossible to know anything with absolute
certainty" seems very grey. When I first read it I thought that there was no way that this was true, but the more I thought about how many things in our lives are uncertain, the more I agreed with the above statement. In life, we will never fully know/understand the people around us. We all keep secrets and parts of ourselves hidden because we fear what others may think. We'll never actually know how this planet came to be either. Sure we have our theories and beliefs, but no one living in this day and age was ever there to witness the beginning of it all. In the world we live in there are too many unknowns that we cling to in the hopes that one day we will be absolutely certain with how things happened. Nothing in this world is certain, not even our daily weather. Temperatures change and light moves to create sunshine or darkness. The world around us changes so quickly so often that there is no certainty alive.
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Dear Allie,
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that is absolutely certain is our friendship ;)
But other than that I agree with you. We can't know anything with absolute certainty because things are constantly changing around us; it would be naive to say we are sure about one thing when it could have changed by the time we are saying it.
I completely agree with you. Scientists are always coming up with new theories but they are never actually certain about those things. Even in the human body, there are so many things that doctors don't even know about including the brain. That statement is really funny because at first I thought well of course we know a lot of things with absolute certainty but the more I think about it, the more I agree with you.
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