Plato famously discuses his allegory of the man in the cave to show how the light of knowledge was always there, yet it was hidden behind us as we were not facing the mouth of the cave, and thus blinded by our own limitations of exploration. Once the man leaves the cave he can know real knowledge outside of the shadowy figures he though was knowledge beforehand (Cooper, 1999)
The things we have to learn do not come from some outside experience, but rather are there within us from the very start. This is a view of knowledge that shows it is innately within our own beings, but we have to discover it ourselves through a process of reawakening the knowledge we already have (Feldman, 2003)
Thus, no information is ever new, but rather it is lying dormant within ourselves and is reawakened at a time and place where we begin to search for it within ourselves with the help of someone more knowledgeable than us who can help us reach the information we seek within ourselves. Plato developed this theory largely to help show how humans could have knowledge about things that go beyond our "sensory experience" (Moser & vander Nat, 2003, p 32)
This placed Protagoras in direct contrast to some of the more well-known philosophies of Plato and Aristotle today. In fact, Protagoras clearly drew the line and showed just how different his philosophy was with the concept that "Man is the measure of all things, of things which are, that they are, and things which are not, that they are not" (Russell, 2004, p 83)
This is a view of knowledge that shows it is innately within our own beings, but we have to discover it ourselves through a process of reawakening the knowledge we already have (Feldman, 2003). Many philosophers throughout history have sensed that knowledge does come from within (Nonaka & Nishiguchi, 2001)
As such, the main tenant of this philosophy is that knowledge is relative (Feldman, 2003). Thus, Protagorian epistemology does not see knowledge as an innate element, but that "knowledge is perception" (Zilioli, 2007, p 22)
One of the principle forms of philosophy that deals with such doubts is known as skepticism. Skepticism not only points out different flaws in empiricism, but those in other forms of epistemology as well, such as rationalism -- and alludes to the fact that such conflicting sources of epistemology actually stem from their attempts to answer questions about them posed by skepticism (Klein, 2011)
More importantly, the experience I got from Charles H. Wright museum is a clear indication that knowledge is of more value than mere true belief (Cooper, 1999)
Wright Museum in Michigan. The museum of African-American history location is in the United State cultural center, in the city of Detroit, Michigan, 315 Warren at Brush Street (Dagbovie, 2010)
I learnt that counterfactual conditionals offer clues to causal connections. Counterfactual thought get incorporated into the empirical thoughts of human beings (Feldman, 2003)
It is not surprising that many of the black pioneers although long gone, their success, contribution and strong will constantly inspires more generations in the contemporary world. The overriding objectives of the courageous black Americans did not only open doors and development to various career fields and professions for black people in the white society but also benefited the humankind (Moser & Nat, 2003)
I, therefore, acknowledge the value of my research. The experience I got from the museum entails counterfactual reflections, which facilitated learning from experience (Noraka & Nishiguchi, 2001)
Descartes realizes that most everything he thought was true was not, because he could not prove it beyond the presence of containing doubt. Here, BonJour writes that "anything for which such a basis for doubt can be found is something that might conceivably be false and so is something that cannot be accepted or relied on if the goal is to conclusively eliminate all error" (BonJour, 2002, p 12)
This is a step towards rethinking the external world itself as being doubtful in its existence. Here, the research suggests that "Descartes indicates how we are able to guarantee our beliefs about reality by limiting what we believe to what is indubitable or is based on what is indubitable" (Daniels, 2012)
(3) Therefore, our understanding of the external world is limited and not sufficiently justified in assuming that it is absolute in its existence. "What will then be true? Perhaps just the single fact that nothing is certain," so were the words of one of the most infamous Western philosophers, Rene Descartes (Descartes, 1998, p 63)