In C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man, Lewis mocks Gaius and Titius' comment about a man's statement "this is sublime" as actually pertaining to a waterfall. Lewis states "this is not a remark about the waterfall, but a remark about his own feelings" Considering that Gaius and Titius are making judgments about feelings, we must know that no feelings are correct because they can't be known by all. Feelings can't be known by others because they are all subjective and trivial. They can vary from one person to the next. I now question what is known?
             Today, we are faced with uncertainties concerning various things like what should I declare as my major? Or what will I do once I graduate from college? Questions like these are unknown for a good bit of underclassmen and even some upperclassmen as well. All the vagueness can present the question what do I know? I believe that anything can be known and in time we will all figure out what we want to do with our lives. I use the word "anything" instead of "everything" because no one can really be a know-it-all. Therefore we are limited to having the potential to know anything that we choose in our lifetime. Knowing things isn't something that comes instinctively for us. We learn things through conditioning, practicing, and experience.
             As children, we don't know things without conditioning. When I was a four year-old, I had not the slightest clue of what the numbers on the clock meant, but I learned that when I heard mom and dad placing plates down at the dinner table that it was time to eat. Like Pavlov did in his study with the dog and the bell, I knew that sound meant food was coming. Other things much simpler than knowing when dinner is being served become known to children. When my youngest brother Nick was a little over a year old, he would cry when he was placed in his crib for nap time. Though he was just a lit...