Knowledge and Belief

Knowledge requires conviction for it to be proven. Even when concerned with what society deems the most objective of our ways of knowing, empiricism, it is impossible to know something entirely without putting it into greater context by means of belief. Empiricism, or sensory perception, does provide justification for knowledge however. For example, we do not experience ourselves moving around the Sun; instead we observe the Sun to move. This common observational experience, that the sun rises and sets and as such must be moving, is not by itself a conclusive argument. If it were, then humanity would think the Sun revolved around the Earth. ...