Concocting Knowledge. It's a Magical Thing.

In class today we were instructed to think of something that a teacher had told us and that we had taken at face value. That is to say, accepted it as truth without question. So after some thought, I recalled that this very teacher whos class I was in had told me that there would be a Film Club meeting in two weeks. We were then given a task to go on down to Ye Olde Library and find facts that could verify this thing we had been told as being knowledge. We were looking for the truth portion to add to our justification and belief portions of our knowledge stew.

So as soon as we arrived in the library I turned around, looked my teacher in the face, and asked him if there was a Film Club meeting in two weeks. He replied in the positive, handing me a big steaming pile of verification that I could use to accept the date and time of the upcoming meeting as knowledge. Had the meeting been more soon in it's coming, I could also have used the school announcement page to verify such a fact.

And there you have it. Like a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, like a child becomes a man, and like a duck becomes a larger duck, I was able to metamorphosize the justification, belief, and truth into a new piece of knowledge, that there will be a Film Club meeting in two weeks. Provided the teacher remembers to show up this time (You know who you are).