Have you been wondering where does our knowledge came from? Or is knowledge innate or acquired? In philosophy, knowledge is defined as actionable information that forms the basis of thoughts and actions. To my way of thinking, similarly to what John Locke had philosophized, there is no innate knowledge or ideas thus, a human brain is a blank slate or a tabula rasa in which experiences imprint knowledge – meaning to say you will not know something unless it’s felt or introduced to you.
The fact the we or some of us are afraid of pain (either physical or emotional), how can we know that we are afraid of pain if we didn’t experience the feeling of getting hurt or pain in the first place? Another example is when a mosquito bit you. Through the
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But is there really such thing as forever? Like Parmenides, I strongly believe that there is permanence. In the Principle of Non-Contradiction, Aristotle philosophized that “Whatever it is, whatever it is not; everything is what it is; everything is its own being, and of being is not being.” which proves that there is permanence because whatever or whoever you are will forever be the same. Our conscious being and the essence of who and what we are cannot be changed, it will remain the same. If you were born as a man, you will never be a pig or an animal, you can’t also be a woman unless you underwent a surgery to be a woman but you will still be considered as a man because you’re still the same person - a boy/man in your fundamental core and you cannot change that. According to Heraclitus, everything is in a constant flux, it might sound oxymoron to what I am trying to prove/say but it doesn’t mean that there is no permanence because the “change” itself conveys that there is permanence and that it will forever exist because change is something you can’t stop and alter. An example is a flower, it will bloom today, but tomorrow it will die. You cannot change that because it’s a cycle and that’s the nature of a flower, it will bloom but as soon as you wake up the other day, it will wither and soon fade away. Gottfried Leibniz, on the other hand, also proposed that there is a reason