“That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow.” Consider knowledge issues raised by this statement in two areas of knowledge.
"Laws come and go but universal truths remain constant". 400 years ago it was accepted as knowledge that African Americans counted as 3/5 of a person. How can it be that society used to believe the color of one's skin dictated how human they were. Anatomically, an individual of African descent is no different then a white person; however, to our predecessors it was held evident that black people did not share the same value of a white man. This was not only allowed but embraced because it was fact back in the 1700s that whites and black were just different.
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