Thursday, November 15, 2007

Knowing the Unknown!! - A Philosophical Thought.

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake and talking to one another in the waking state? -Plato”. The attempts to answer this question are just merely different perspectives and nothing more than that.

What’s on earth makes us to think like we do now and separates us from all other living beings ? The place where you cannot be right without the law. It seems to me that no one knows the exact answer. “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance -Plato”. And nobody has the abstract knowledge of reasoning knowing the unknown. If I were to express my opinion on knowing the unknown, I would express it in mathematical terms (Since many evidences claim that mathematicians are not good in reasoning). Here, in this scenario I compare the realm of reality of the knowing the unknown with the concept of Limits. And it would be better off explaining it with an example.

Let’s consider a frog trying to reach from a point A to a point B. Every time it jumps, it covers half the total distance remaining. So in reality frog never will be able to reach to point B. It only tends to reach the point B. In Parallel to this concept of Limits, man always starts his journey from ignorance and forms the opinions based on the information that he gets on his way to acquire knowledge. So in the process of acquiring the knowledge, man always tends to reach the point, where he can find the true abstract knowledge. But in reality he could never reach that state. Which actually backs my hypothesis of nobody has the abstract knowledge of reasoning the unknown. When you reason knowing the unknown, You only try to express your perspective on reasoning on your way to acquire the true abstract knowledge, which in my view is the unconventional wisdom, which people generally talk about.

@Copyright –Sairam.Chilap

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