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Stempticism Vs Skepticism

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Knowledge, something that’s necessary for every human being, whether it’s for survival or simply understanding something, is defined as the awareness or familiarity gained by the experiences and familiarity of a fact or situation. There are times when only knowing the surface of a certain topic, such as a person’s religion or faith, will most definitely help that beholder to maintain the high level of confidence, but this can also go in a different way: the more a person knows about a certain topic, the lower their confidence level will be; and so, this particular type of situation will ultimately create doubts within oneself. Skepticism is dependent on the amount of knowledge that we gain and retain, and this can be shown through psychology, …show more content…

And so, a question arises, to what extent does human sciences, specifically psychology, influence the skepticism of the knowledge that one has obtained throughout time? As stated before, human sciences most definitely affect one’s skepticism of any piece of knowledge that’s been obtained, because human psychology impacts a great amount of a person’s thoughts and decisions. For example, throughout life, people meet strangers and possibly make special bonds with certain people, but those relationships are mostly based on the feelings that are made and experienced during that moment in time, or in other words, first impressions. As a teenager, I’ve met many people through school, church, and many other places, such as my pastors, teachers, friends, school mates, and more. But each stranger that I’ve met has always made a unique impression on me, so based on how I am able to interpret …show more content…

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fully explore a differently perceived topic. But overall, this lesson can be applied to anything that may occur in our daily lives, especially since it remains inside of every human being’s minds, of social life, and of religious circle. But there are also somethings that were not mentioned or considered throughout this essay: In psychology, a first impression is the event when a human being first encounters another person and forms a mental image of that person, whether it’s good or bad. The accuracy of one’s impression completely varies on the observer and the target, like a person, an event, an item, or whatever is being observed. As human beings, we immediately attempt to better one another, and even if we were to be presented any evidence to the contrary, we all are attached to our first impression of anybody we meet. And that is why we all must be careful with how we act and what we say in front of others, no matter what that situation

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