Tok Essay - “it Is only Knowledge Produced with Difficulty That We Truly Value” to What Extent Do You Agree with This Statement?

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was not difficult to produce. An individual types the sentence and it is automatically translated. That leads to an increased the risk misinterpretation because the altering of words since the machine lacks the ability to see the proper word for the context of the situation the sentence presents. The majority of people are not professional translators so there is always going to be misinterpretations but that can be decreased when people take time to investigate both languages. When they find the best word to convey their meaning, that success enhances their determination to continue translating and continue to improve their skills. This can be applied in various historical settings.

Knowledge that is difficult to produce challenges us to continually search for answers, no matter how vague or hard to grasp they may be. Through a mathematical view, the calculation of pi, an irrational number with unlimited digits, challenges us to calculate more of its numbers. This can be beneficial as it improves the accuracy of answers for calculations that use pi. It does not stop at just 3.14 because 7 divided into 22 creates an irrational number. It is commonly used to find the circumference or area of a circle. It is a little less than one-third of the circumference of a circle, which can be found by multiplying the circle’s diameter (or 2 times the radius) by pi. Even the early Greeks were fascinated with trying to get correct digits for pi. Archimedes was recognized for a clever approach he developed. He showed that if you draw two polygons, or figures with at least three straight sides, one inside the circle and one outside it, then pi would be somewhere in between. He imagined creating polygons with more and more sides until you got an approximation for pi that was precise enough. However, it is William Jones who is generally credited with the invention of Pi. A counterclaim would be that difficult knowledge acts to discourage us if it eludes us for long periods of time. Whenever there is challenge, you have to work past this discouragement in order to achieve your goals. Some people could find this to be too difficult and give up. There are thoughts that it would be unnecessary to waste time continuing the search of pi. One group of people could be put in the position as the ones to continue pi. It is not productive that many different people are searching for the ultimate digits of pi. They might never come together to compare their results and they would all be at different points in their research. One group could have the longest continuation of pi, receiving the credit for that hard work. Would that mean that all the other shorter groups wasted their time and precious resources? Humans are prone to error making so it could be beneficial for more than one person to calculate the digits. The longer the process continues, the more the knowledge produced becomes more difficult to obtain. The challenges motivate us to keep searching for answers. That may be for the reward of recognition or the satisfaction of accuracy.

Any knowledge that is valued had to be difficult to produce. Otherwise, without a long process it would not be appreciated as much as it could. It would not affirm our skills of investigation and determination and then we would not be challenged to search for more answers. If everything was handed to us on a silver platter, we would never get anything accomplished. Advancements would cease and our developing world would fail to get better and be productive.