https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q “We know with confidence only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases” (adapted from JW von Goethe). Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge. en-us 2017-09-22 17:29:05 UTC 2017-12-14 01:20:10 UTC hello@padlet.com 0 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190319560 2017-09-23 00:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190319560 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190319574 2017-09-23 00:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190319574 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190638123

Things we know we don't know

As we learn more, we graze the surface of many different topics, but we learn about what we don't know about

]]> 2017-09-24 23:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190638123 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190638186 2017-09-24 23:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190638186 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190638200 Telescope: one thing in great detail
Binoculars: many things w/o detail

If you look up at the sky with a teloscope, you might be able to focus on one star at a time. You can see this one star with relative detail and thus are able to learn about it. 
If you look with binoculars, you're no longer confined to one star. You are able to see the whole expanse of the stars and move around ans see more and more. However, they are not in great detail, and it becomes increasingly difficult to learn in-depth about each star because of the limitations in time, resources, etc.

The same goes for information. You can focus on one thing at a time and learn in-depth about it, but if you zoom out, you can no longer see with clarity. You see all the things that you can learn about, but you can't zoom in on one particular thing without neglecting other things, and you will know that you can't understand those other things until you zoom in on them. Since you know that those things exist, but you also know that you don't know about them, you doubt your information about them and how much you know about them.

Since you're aware of how little you know about them, you might make the connection that those things you don't know about may affect the things you do know about. Since you know that you dont know about those known unknowns, you now have reason to doubt your knowns because they might be influenced by unknowns that you don't understand. In that way, you lose confidence in what you do know because of what you don't know.]]> 2017-09-24 23:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/190638200 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191065159 pick 2]]> 2017-09-26 00:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191065159 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191065193

Since the universe is infinite, the knowledge that stands to be gained about it is also infinite

]]> 2017-09-26 00:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191065193 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191065221

Numbers are infinite, so the knowledge that stands to be gained about them is infinite

idk i don't know maths

]]> 2017-09-26 00:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191065221 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191065720

things we don't know that we don't know

Things that we are unaware exist

• we have no way of knowing about our unknown unknowns until they become known unknowns

]]> 2017-09-26 00:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191065720 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191066554

In order to know something, you must have confidence in that information

You cannot doubt unknown unknowns

]]> 2017-09-26 00:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191066554 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191066567

Even if you know something, there are things you don't know about that could affect the thing you do know about

You don't know that you don't doubt unknown unknowns, and therefore have nothing to doubt

]]> 2017-09-26 00:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191066567 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191066860 Confidence: the state of feeling certain about the truth of something.
Doubt: question the truth or fact of (something)]]> 2017-09-26 00:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191066860 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191066921

To know

• be absolutely certain or sure about something

Knowledge

• Justified true belief
• 
  

Only 

• exclusively, 

]]> 2017-09-26 00:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191066921 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191067703

be absolutely certain or sure about something

• this denotes confidence

"Confidence" must be in regards to unknowns?

]]> 2017-09-26 01:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191067703 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191068077 2017-09-26 01:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191068077 clarbuckle https://padlet.com/clarbuckle/3j4fjni6zc6q/wish/191072254

Doubt and Confidence are opposites

Doubt and Confidence exist as a spectrum?

Each person has Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns

We can know

You know things [only] when you know them with confidence?

• Some knowledge is necessary to have  confidence

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