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Reflection No. 1 Angeles, John Raven C
Reflection No. 1 Angeles, John Raven C
Angeles Epistemology
Philosophy II June 21, 2019
in my mind, the verb knowing, this action word does connote that all men has the capacity to be
aware on something and more so to do something with its fullest consciousness. As man inquires
and as the queries arise on man’s mind this would be outset of his or her fullness because the act
of knowing is innate and endowed on him or her while knowledge is derived from outside of him,
suffice that the knowing is a pivotal faculty. However for me there is something anomalous
Experience wise, the query “can we really know the truth?” lingers on my mind in the sense
that if we can really know the truth then why do some of our accumulated truths diverge with
others, according to the philosophy truth is something objective, religion per se can accentuate my
point. Many sects have different averment with God’s notion and claim that’s the true principle
that we should adhere. Philosophers likewise deviates their notion with each other in a specific
aspect and principle, if this is the case I cannot say that truth attainable. As the phenomenology
accentuates that thing is different the way it appears in this sense the defect is in our senses or on
Truth is something which man is yearning for, the demands of our intellect is truth per se.
However the process of knowing should not be engulfed of an inordinate self- inclusivity.
Wherefore, the truth our need to progress, the truth of needing justice, the truth of needing God
can’t grasp by many of us despite manifold drawbacks which are transpiring. Can we really know
the truth?