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Question:Would you agree with this statement?

So long as we have knowledge, we have doubt.

If so, do you believe that we will never be able to know without doubt?

If not, tell me what kind of knowledge does not include doubt.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Would you agree with this statement?

So long as we have knowledge, we have doubt.

If so, do you believe that we will never be able to know without doubt?

If not, tell me what kind of knowledge does not include doubt.

Newman's "Grammar of Assent" is clarifying in regards to your inquiry and postulations.

Acknowledgement of doubt, in all things, is the greatest wisdom of all. As one matures the realization that our "truths" are independent perceptions only and do not constitute the "facts" of the universal reality, allows us to truly explore the impossibility of knowledge without doubt. We can only begin to "trust" our own perceptions when we acquiesce to their limitations.

No, I would not agree with your summation! Knowledge is Power and when you know a subject and have researched it well, you have no doubt in your Mind. The Knowledge that comes from the Creator through Universal Mind is always to be Trusted, there is no doubt as this is Truth and Revelation from the Highest Source

because doubt produces curiosity and curiosity ignites us to find answer to our doubt which in the end give us knowledge... it's a cycle...

I agree with the statement. I disagree with your following summation.

Doubt is something to overcome by rationally, logically, looking at options, definitions, the logic that brought you to doubt, and whether or not that doubt has any bearing on anything of importance.

I "know" Clinton is running for President; I "doubt" she will get the nomination.

Knowledge that is not doubtable by those who have it is called an axiom. Acceptance of an axiom presupposes the lack of doubt in that axiom. Someone else can doubt the truth in the axiom, but you cannot if you accept that it is, indeed, an axiom.

I agree with you .
The full development of consciousness or becoming one with The Total Consciousness alone does not include doubt.

Doubt is the most important tool in the philosophers tool kit. It fosters creative thought and provides incentive to explore uncharted or unpopular ideas.