Knowledge Communites and Inherent Limitations

-Do knowledge claims transcend different communities or cultures?

One could assume, or think that knowledge claims transcent from different communities or cultures, however, in some ways or another, one could state that people come up with these claims, and 'produce' them to become bigger, and therefore they become concepts. These need to be demonstrated or evidential to commerce in to differnt communitues or cultures to be established or confirmed.

-What differences exist between public and private justifications?


This may descend from what is 'suppose' to consist of public justification and private justification, whether either are what one wants to believe in or just what one has to believe in because they know its logically correct. Or is it? The public justifications can consist of reasonings for what goes on generally globally, such as science, typical everyday science; theories of one another, human aspects, what are we, are we real? And the Private justifications consist of more self thought judgements, these can be any that are your own theory, your own 'thing' that only you want to Believe, and do not wish to indoctrinate on others.



-To what extent might this distinction between private knowledge and public knowledge be culturally dependent?

This depends on the way one theories on culture. One could argue that both private and public knowledge comes throroughly from the cultural dependence that one has, but the other subject could argue that culture elaborates only to some extent and, what i believe is that the culture can only elaborate in to the circumstances however to some sort of extent, and this can be justified by ones theory that does not correlate with anothers.


-Does making a knowledge claim carry any particular obligation or responsibility for the knower?



This could oblige the knower to some sort of responsibility due to what the knowledge claim is that one is distributing. If one decides to prove this claim, one then then gains confidence, he one fails to do so, one may start inquiring whether their claim is correct, or will ever be correct. The kind of pressure one may start to be experiencing is whether any of their theories will be correct and will they be able to justify any of them. Responsibility...yes, obligation... possibly.

School!

In my opinion, there is a huge difference between education and indoctrinaton:

Whether you want to learn in ways or get in pumped in to your head section after section of which after certain point they can only accept the knowledge.
Education is the aparting and aquiring of knowledge through teaching and learning, most commonly and especially at schools or some kind of institution of the sort. Indoctrination is rather to teach somebody a belief, doctrine, or an ideology thoroughly and systematically, especially with desisn or plan of discouraging independent understood, though or the acceptance of other opinions an ideas.
To indoctrinate means to not aquire but to systematically impound in someones head, howver, on the other hand, to educate means to aquire the knowledge in sorts of ways.
Example: "of one had a peice of knowledge in the air, an indoctrinator would tell them to get it, learn it, know it; on the other hand an educator would simply tell one to catch the knowledge if they wish to"


School and ecouragement go very well for some, and other maybe not as much. With post experience i have gained the encouragement to ask questions and think independantly. Encouragement is enabling a person to search for themselves in some sort of form, and therefore school does this, fromt the environment your're around; to the kind of people your're around to even what you learn. Asking questions requires confidence and school gives most students this quality. As well as teaching valuable lessons like geography or psychology students learn from school how to independantly ask questions.


Schools want their students to conform obviosuly, but all students conform in their own way. Some may choose to just observe and then follow and eventually pilot situations. Schools can want students to conform at the start of a school term, when new students have enrolled; or simply in lessons and many situations where the student needs to be confident and most of all independant.


Honestly I do expect my teacher to 'know' everything there is know mostly because they are the people who have (in school) been teaching me my whole entire life and therfore its fixed in my head that they should typically know all the answers to my burning questions and will most probably be confused if they dont... However... At the age i am now i am slightly more aware that teachers are still only human and can 'know' to a certain limit and answer therefore to a certain limit.

Factoids

Three facts proven wrong

-Alcohol in all forms has been said to be 100% unhealthy and it shouldn't be consumed. Then a couple of years ago a researcher said that red wine was actually healthy for the heart but not other forms of alcohol. They had also added that all alcohol in moderation has healthy benefits to them.
-Humans evolved directly from tree dwelling apes – but actually more likely from ground dwelling apes "Our study demonstrates that our earliest ancestors did not simply come down from the trees. Rather, they evolved from an ape already adapted to life on the ground."
-Children with asthma were actually got told to stay in enclosed pool areas because the humidity was good for their asthmatic condition. Now researchers suggests that the chlorine in the air from the pools aggravates and make the asthma in the children with the condition much worse.



Three Facts

-Yawns are contagious. Well, at least 40 to 60 percent of the time. Scientists remain puzzled as to why this phenomenon occurs, though some theorize that it might have originated from a time when we used visual rather than verbal cues to coordinate social behaviour. And yawns can be passed not only from human to human but from human to canine as well: A study published in the August issue of Biology Letters showed that when a man yawned in front of a group of dogs, 72 percent of them responded in kind.
-A hearty laugh a day can keep the doctor away. In 2005, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine reported that after patients in the study were shown segments of a funny film, the inner lining of their blood vessels expanded an average of 22 percent. Such dilation plays an important role in improving cardiovascular health and overall well-being.
-Swimming is a great fitness activity. One reason is the water cools the body very efficiently, allowing for more exercise and less fatigue.