Can we know something that has not yet been proven true
... According to Plato’s Definition of Knowing they are not because their claim lack the element of justification or prove. ... For a knowledge claim to be proved has to have at least one of the following elements; observation, experience, logical reasoning, credible authority and memory. It is generally accepted among philosophers that the two necessary conditions that must exist when we make a knowledge claim is that we must believe in it and that it has to be true. Thus, the purpose of this essay would be to investigate if it is possible to believe that a statement is true and thus make a knowledge claim without first proving it. ... Copper, the unique characteristic of true scientific knowledge is its falsifiability, or testability or refutability. A theory by itself, although conforming to reality, cannot be accepted as scientific knowledge if it is not possible to test it by any scientific method. This statement implies that the criterion for a knowledge claim in the area of science is that it has to be proven true. ... Nonentheless, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution although has yet to be subjected to any refutability tests as proposed by Karl R. ... Gregor Mendel’s revolutionary theory of genetics is another compelling piece of evidence of how a knowledge claim has to be first proven true by concrete evidence. ... However, it is also rather interesting to note that although Mendel had substantiated his theory with substantial statistical evidence, the theory was not accepted by many scientist of his time. Thus, it could also be possible to say that even if a scientific knowledge had been proven true, it would not necessarily be accepted as knowledge should it not conform with the existing theories of the related sphere of study. ... Obviously, he said what he said because he believed that it was true. ... In this instance, it seems that one need not need prove something in order to know what is ethical and what is not. ... Thus, is seems that knowledge in the scientific field needs to proved before it could qualify as knowledge whereas knowledge in the ethical field does not require prove.