The Subjectivity of Knowledge

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This paper examines the idea that knowledge that we consider to be "holy truths" is actually subjective. It looks at different sciences to prove this point - archeology and anthropology. It states that the knowledge made available to the world is through the biased or slanted view of the people transferring it, and therefore is subjective.

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"We might like to think that knowledge lies all about us in the world in terms of discrete pieces of knowledge like pearls lying all around us. Or perhaps a better metaphor would be that knowledge is like gold in a deep vein. Obvious once you find it, and some of it lying right on the surface, but much of it deep down and hard to get to. But still, once one has done the arduous work necessary to arrive at the gold or the knowledge, absolutely obvious when one comes across it."

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