Why do I really need knowledge?

Why do I really need familiarity?Knowledge is defined as rightful(prenominal)ified true belief1. This means that knowledge is any justified belief that can be proven to be true. The question The whole point of knowledge is to produce both nitty-gritty decision in our personal lives. get out be the basis for my essay. This statement cl shoots that as we net knowledge, we gain core and purpose that affect our personal lives, which is to say, we find the answers we were looking for and also a thirst to know more. However, I do not believe that, when we gain knowledge, it affects everyone around us. My m oppositewise is a banker, the knowledge she has gained, not lonesome(prenominal) when helps her, simply mainly impacts on others around her, because with that knowledge she has started her own bank. Whenever we gain knowledge, we also gain answers and more questions. In the Osrailway car Pistorius case, police investigators wanted to establish why he killed his girlfriend (i mportee) and whether it was even him that killed his girlfriend (purpose).2 In this case, meaning is linked to intent, because thither needs to be a reason for it and purpose is linked to opportunity, because at that place needs to be a way. When we gain new knowledge we feel better aware and more curious about our surroundings. That is to say, we learn to give ourselves meaning and purpose and in turn affect others, there are many cases where this is proven. Isaac Newton can be an example, when he first wondered about gravity he was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head. It was then that he wondered what force made things fall. He sought to find meaning to why the objects always fell back to earth, so he began experimenting on different objects, using reason, he used the resulting knowledge he got from his observation to learn that anything that goes up must fall down to the ground3. These discover he made were later called the laws of gravity and since they have ma ny uses. It has become common sense since multitude now know to be cautious when dealing with high places. When I was little, I picked up my baby baby from her crib while she was sleeping, when my mother anchor me with my sister dangling by a foot, she screamed. This is because she knows the fundamentals about gravity and that if my sister fell, she wouldve been hurt.Isaac Newton also developed the laws of motion, which states that an object in motion will continue to stay in motion until and external force is acted on it4. The laws of motion are used in different fields like car manu itemuring, car testing, aeronautics, These laws also have provided a basis for many creations, for example, parachutes, trampolines, diving boards, etc. When a person is driving and suddenly sees someone or something on the road in front of them, they immediately hit the brakes, as they know that if they kept going, they would collide with the person/thing in front of them, causing hurt to the perso n/thing, or to themselves/their car. Also, when they hit the brakes, an opposing force is acted on the cars forward motion, which in turn stops the car from moving. Two summers ago, I was riding a bike in my cousins house really fast. I wanted to slow down so I could get off the bike, but I mistakenly pressed the brakes, the bike stop abruptly and I was thrown out of the seat, I flipped over the handlebars and landed on my head. This is how the laws of motion would apply, because I hit the brakes, the bike stopped, but I didnt stop, so that was why I flew off.When Isaac Newton discovered these laws, it was not for any higher reason than just to learn the answers for the whys and the whats of knowledge, in this, he had gained the meaning, but he still had no intention of gaining a purpose for his life from this, it was later, that other people found the meaning and purpose in the knowledge that he had discovered.Medical professionals (doctors, dentists, veterinaries, etc.) who have l earnt medicine, anatomy, biology, etc. they used the knowledge they learnt to achieve a meaning of understanding how animal and plant bodied work, and the purpose of using that knowledge to help examine, treat or cure any injuries or illnesses within the body. My sister told me that she wants to become a pediatrician she can only when gain this knowledge for the purpose of helping children.Whenever there is a terrorist attack, whether Boko Haram, ISIS, Al Qaeda, investigators always researches everything, not only the terrorists attacking, but the victims being attacked, this is so that they can stop more attacks from happening. This is because if they can understand why a place was attacked (meaning), then it would be easier to stop other attacks in other locations (purpose).In economics, perfect competition is described as a situation where firms in an industry are relatively small in stature, have perfect knowledge of each other and are price takers5. This is mainly theoreticall y though as it cannot be practically implemented overdue to a wide range of unknown and inconstant variables. Although it is proven that this situation cannot exist, economists use the theory of perfect competition to determine the effect on the parsimony if it were to be practiced. This example is different because there is no real life scenario to go with it, but it still boosters the main point as the economists that theorized this scenario used some(prenominal) experimentation they had to come to the conclusion that it cannot exist, that is to say that the economists gained meaning from this experiment and the purpose of proving or disproving other economic scenarios.A monopoly is a situation where by a single firm has control over an entire industry, so they enjoy economies of scale and have price circumscribeting abilities6. In Nigeria, there are quatern main telecoms companies MTN, Airtel, Glo Etisalat, these four are individually owned by private firm. In Ethiopia, th ere is only one telecommunications follow that is government owned. The Nigerian companies not only offer variety, but they also have an unrestricted service plan, meaning there are no limitations or restrictions to the use of the service, this is because their main aim of these firms is to move over profit. The consumer can simply switch from one service provider to another if that customer is unsatisfied with their current service plan provider. The Ethiopian company is the only provider, so there is no need for any variety of services, they do not need to offer special plans or promotions or discounts because there is no competition for the company, there will also be heavily monitored and restricted use of the services because the main aim of the company is not to make profit, but to promote citizen optimization as they see fit, meaning that they will not allow any misuse of the service plan. There is also the fact that even if the customers are not satisfied with the service, there is nothing that they can do because they cannot change their service plan there is only one telecommunication company in the country. Here I have given two economic scenarios, the one in Nigeria is monopolistic competition, and the other in Ethiopia is a monopoly. In the first scenario, we can tell that there will be excess consumer satisfaction by the choice of four different service plans and the unrestricted access. However, in the second scenario, there would be excess dissatisfaction by the inability of choice, and the heavily restricted access. From my perception of these two scenarios, I can reason that the Nigerian telecommunication system is better because if offers the right of choice and other benefits as opposed to the Ethiopian telecommunication system which would only offer on choice with no special benefits and at whatever price the government sets. Here is an example of how we can gain meaning but not purpose, because if someone can gain the knowledge of the m onopoly of the Ethiopian telecommunications company, they can now understand why people would want to move from Ethiopia to Nigeria, but they will have nothing to do with this knowledge.The only reason for acquiring any form of knowledge would be to gain both meaning and purpose in our lives because once we have the knowledge, we understand how it involves up, meaning, and what we set out to accomplish with it.Referencesgoogle. theory+of+knowledge. n.d. website. 22 November 2014.ib-theory-of-knowledge-website. n.d. Webpage. 22 January 2015.theoryofknowledgestudents.com. n.d. webpage. 2 December 2014.Blink, Jocelyn and Ian Dorton. Economics Course Companion. 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