The World We Know About Is the World as Presented to Us by Others

We can discuss about how do we know what truth is; what is real and what is not? There is no certainty. However we can argue that the world we know about is the world as presented to us by others. In this essay I do not want say that the world we get presented is truth, as I said we do not know what truth is. We might never find out what the real truth is. But the picture you got from the world is learned, pictured and so presented by people around us. I will give you some examples, but of course there many more examples.

At first you got your parents, they have presented you the world at the moment you were born. That person which you call dad is the husband of the person you call mom, and together they form your parents. Not only they learned you which object is linked to which word, they might affect your way of thinking. What often happens is that when you know your parents vote, for example, for PvdA you think that is a right decision. They explain you why PvdA is the right choose to make and you get that knowledge with you. Of course it is not always the case that you think what your parents think, but it still can affect you. Maybe you think �Well my parents think that, but what do they know? I think this.’ That could be that you are just bright or you may have got presented another opinion by someone or something else.

Beside your parents you also got school and teachers which give you new knowledge or may you learn to think differently than you did before, or both. With new knowledge you can change your way of thinking or opinion. A good example of learning to think differently is this subject; Theory of Knowledge. I never questioned myself so many things as we do in this class. Knowledge we get from school is from knowledge of the teachers themselves, but also from books and other media like the Internet.

Media is another example of others who presented us the world. You are in contact with media