forum for week of 14 Nov: when we don't want knowledge

A belief qualifies as knowledge if, in acquiring it, one has achieved the basic aim in the inquiry that led to it. For example when one tries to find a logical explanation for an unnatural phenomenon of which they were involved in, they tend to perceive and think. However due to the rush of shock that as overcome them, their search for an explanation is hurried, and they probably would settle for the first explanation that calmed their worries. The search here is not for knowledge rather it’s for the slightest plausible answer that can place the world back to what they know it as. Also a deep skeptic would argue that when people normally attempt to find conclusive reasons as to why their beliefs can be claimed as knowledge they cannot, even though they are thinking, perceiving and to some extent conjecturing. This is what leads deep skeptics to believe we have no or very little knowledge. Therefore the qualities of our present believes make a scenario where we are using epistemic methods of thinking but it’s something less than knowledge that we are aiming for, even if we don’t know it ourselves .