Gomberg's Analysis

To begin, Gomberg argues that a normal human life and reliable knowledge of the world around us requires us to have two virtues: we must trust what others tell us; we must be modest about what we believe ourselves to know when we recognize we may be wrong. Either we trust what someone is saying, or we deny it and doubt it. In today’s world, most people find it very hard to believe what another person is saying. They’ve came to know their own beliefs and what they believe to be true or not. A lot of situations and cases tend to be doubted because people won’t believe anything until they have their own proof or certainty about He goes on to say that trust in knowledge by testimony is important because testimony is a special way of acquiring knowledge. …show more content…
Not everything that people say we should believe because sometimes, they could be lying. Not everyone is trustworthy and not everyone tells the truth. There are manipulative and vindictive people in this world who will lie about literally anything so it’s up to you to decipher someone who is lying or being honest. Instead of trusting what others say, you should doubt what they say instead. You can’t always believe what someone tells you just because they say so. You must investigate, question, and wonder what the other person is saying and decide for yourself if you’re willing to trust them and what’s coming from their mouth. Gomberg wants us to believe that it’s okay to believe what others say without having any evidence of if what that person is saying is true or not. He’s saying we must trust what others say as if we have no choice to. Different people that we know have different views and beliefs so they tend to believe other things than we do. People that we whom have a reason to trust, believe things that cannot all possibly be true. These conflicts may arise because people typically have different views than others. They believe different things, they were brought up a different way so their values are different, and they grew up believing what they parent told them to believe. To believe something someone says then you must trust that person, to a degree at least. You must trust what the other person is saying and that they know what they’re talking about to believe and trust them. So therefore, in order to trust what others say you must first distinguish if that person is trustworthy and if they actually know what they’re talking about. You can’t trust others just by what they say or if they tell you to believe them, you have to have some type of evidence and know what they’re saying isn’t a