Scientific knowledge is not being taken accurately ,and the new younger are ignoring many facts his neglect of ignorance reflects assumptions about ignorance that are questionable. For instance, Pascal’s metaphor is at the very least ambiguous, for it allows at least two distinct and irreconcilable interpretations (Mittelstrass 1996). The first interpretation takes knowledge to be the volume of the sphere. Hence as knowledge grows the area of the unknown – our ignorance – diminishes. Our knowledge grows faster than our ignorance. We may call this the optimistic view. The second interpretation takes knowledge to be the outer limits of the sphere. As knowledge increases the area of the unknown increases. In this interpretation, our ignorance grows faster than our knowledge. We could call this the pessimistic view. It is difficult to say which view is correct, and futile perhaps even to debate the issue. The conundrum indicates however that the relationship between know ,so what is the impact of knowledge?
In thinking about this issue, it's important to distinguish between the individual level ("How can any one person improve their life, using knowledge?") and the societal one. In Enlightenment Now (2018), Steven Pinker provides solid, evidence-based arguments for saying that knowledge does improve people's lives, that we as a human species are on the whole better off thanks to science (knowledge) and education.
Knowledge refers to the facts , information, and skills which we acquire through experience or education. However, knowledge acquired through experience (personal knowledge) and knowledge resulting from education (declarative knowledge) are not effective by themselves. The reason is that application of knowledge is more important because it provides an enviable opportunity to learn to know how theories are materialized in real life. Applying knowledge to one’s life is a priceless virtue which benefits the community in practical ways.
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Of course, increasing our knowledge leads to a decrease in ignorance, but scientists are constantly looking for something new to make human life easier. Global problems, unsolvable problems, incurable diseases are a sign that science is developing in the field of solving such problems. There would be no these problems, would not know the limits of science and its activity in determining and distinguishing the solved from the unsolvable.
The great philosopher, mathematician, logic, lawyer, one of the founders of natural science and initiators of the Academy in Russia G. Leibniz, defined the purpose of science as follows: "the Purpose of science — the welfare of human kind, that is, the multiplication of all that is useful to people, but not in order to then indulge in idleness. And to maintain virtue and expand knowledge. Every talent must do its part."
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