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Published: 30.05.2006.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'How Can I Be sure I Know Something?', 1.
Extract

This question is a rather difficult one to answer, mainly because there is no real right or wrong answer to it. It could take a lifetime of thinking to properly answer it, but I don't have that long so ill do the best I can!
The first answer that immediately popped into my head when I first read the question was that "we cannot be sure we know something, we can't be sure we know anything, we can't be sure we know everything". I say this because if I was sure that I knew everything then I wouldn't have to question what I know, like I'm doing now. …

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