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Neither Art nor Science can give us a complete knowledge of the world. Discuss.  

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Neither Art nor Science can give us a complete knowledge of the world. Discuss. The most formal and probably also most correct (in TOK sense) way to define knowledge is something like "something to regard as true beyond doubt", or in other words something which is true. Personally, I believe that since the definition of knowledge says that what you know has to be true, it is incorrect to say that you know something. Who are we to claim what's true and what's not, when even the greatest of scientist and thinkers have claimed to know something which some hundred years later has been proved false? To simplify it, as Manuel in Fawlty Towers would have said; "I know nothing". This discussion, I believe, is not specifically about art or science, but it is a discussion about knowledge in itself. In order to gain complete knowledge of the world, "knowing" must...

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