“To what extent do the concepts that we use shape the conclusion that we reach?” When you think about it, to a certain extent we actually utilize the concepts that we acquired overtime to shape the conclusions reached. We as people for the part may use concepts that we know, take pieces from it and use what we know ourselves to come up with this conclusion. To be able to achieve the goal of actually giving a direct answer to this question, reasoning and memory would be used as ways of knowing along with History as Areas of Knowledge.
With the given ways of knowing, when it comes to coming to a conclusion about a certain topic some of the ways of knowing are used: reasoning and memory. Reasoning is a way of explaining, justifying, and understanding …show more content…
Memory another way of knowing causes us to retell whatever it is stored in our brains. The thing about memory is that it isn’t really the first source we as people would go to because first everyone memory could get distorted out of emotion or with time, for example with the two witnesses, the first witness could have been shocked out of their wits that Suspect A was really suspect B, so then the question is to what extent do we trust the witnesses reasoning when their memory could have been distorted? This is problem some might have with History for example, whenever someone is retelling accounts of what happened during the time period who is to say that a certain event happened? Who are we to trust? To what extent there is any validity to the event? How do we know if the person recounting the event is fabricating the story or the person could have remembered a fraction of what happened and tried to fill in the gaps with false truths? All of these questions that can flow through the mind, but the answer itself isn’t to concrete. We learn American History because it is necessary to know about how America came to be, but how can you trust everything that comes out of a History book, when there is a small possibility that it may not be true? When it comes to learning new information especially when you are ignorant of everything …show more content…
To some people they’ll say history is the events that happened in the past while others may say that history isn’t just looking in the past, but us looking deeper, interacting with past events. Usually people believe what happens in History because for the most part the events that has ensued has been reiterated time and time again. The thing is History is always being rewritten to hold more validity, so there are people who pick and choose and still learn to come to a different conclusion, making one side of the argument. The other side of the argument is that with History the past no longer exist so who is to say what happened in the history books actually happened, the events that were recounted in these books could be false and everybody could be eating it all up, making the conclusion that everything in the textbook is factual, like previously said people make the argument that no one should go into a subject ignorant because then the concepts you just learned will shape your
With the given ways of knowing, when it comes to coming to a conclusion about a certain topic some of the ways of knowing are used: reasoning and memory. Reasoning is a way of explaining, justifying, and understanding …show more content…
Memory another way of knowing causes us to retell whatever it is stored in our brains. The thing about memory is that it isn’t really the first source we as people would go to because first everyone memory could get distorted out of emotion or with time, for example with the two witnesses, the first witness could have been shocked out of their wits that Suspect A was really suspect B, so then the question is to what extent do we trust the witnesses reasoning when their memory could have been distorted? This is problem some might have with History for example, whenever someone is retelling accounts of what happened during the time period who is to say that a certain event happened? Who are we to trust? To what extent there is any validity to the event? How do we know if the person recounting the event is fabricating the story or the person could have remembered a fraction of what happened and tried to fill in the gaps with false truths? All of these questions that can flow through the mind, but the answer itself isn’t to concrete. We learn American History because it is necessary to know about how America came to be, but how can you trust everything that comes out of a History book, when there is a small possibility that it may not be true? When it comes to learning new information especially when you are ignorant of everything …show more content…
To some people they’ll say history is the events that happened in the past while others may say that history isn’t just looking in the past, but us looking deeper, interacting with past events. Usually people believe what happens in History because for the most part the events that has ensued has been reiterated time and time again. The thing is History is always being rewritten to hold more validity, so there are people who pick and choose and still learn to come to a different conclusion, making one side of the argument. The other side of the argument is that with History the past no longer exist so who is to say what happened in the history books actually happened, the events that were recounted in these books could be false and everybody could be eating it all up, making the conclusion that everything in the textbook is factual, like previously said people make the argument that no one should go into a subject ignorant because then the concepts you just learned will shape your