Sunday, 11 October 2015

Hearing and imitating may not give us correct knowledge.

Most of our knowledge is achieved through our hearing and imitating I would like to cite this above preposition with the help of these examples.

1. The very word “tomorrow” is learned through hearing and imitating
I truly learned this word through hearing. I heard people talk of tomorrow which means ‘the day after today’ it sounds perfect because everybody and anybody use it. But I personally feel that it is not a fact or say a knowledge that is not real.
Why do I say that way? If I think of this word tomorrow, it remains just a word or a concept because the tomorrow is never there for the tomorrow is nothing but it is today in short, “tomorrow never come.” Tomorrow is just what we are saying, in reality it is not there.

2. The vocabulary I use while I am in the conversation
Here too knowledge is received through hearing and imitating I heard from a professional English professor when he use the complicated and beautiful words in his lecture. So to impress my hearers I use the same words without actually knowing the real meaning of the words which later cause me to shame because the words I imitate is nothing but a wrong meaning. That is how the fact is many of us do use words without actually knowing the meaning of it. . We hear and imitate we see and imitate. So as to conclude with a main heading “hearing and imitating,” don’t always provide us genuine knowledge. The duty of the students of philosophy therefore is not to learn thing so passively but learn with an open minded and with a critical outlook.


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