Hold On By Jet

So recently, I did my reflection journal for my Cognitive and Problem Solving module and it turn out to better than expected to the extent where I'll post it in my blog.

Opinion is more important than facts because opinions affect facts. For example, Republic Polytechnic is located at Tanglin Campus before. However due to opinions that RP needs to expand and Tangling Campus is small, the fact now changes to RP being located at Woodlands. Another example is the relative atomic mass is found by adding the weight of the neutron and proton and not electron because scientists think that it is too small of a number, and this are the scientist’s opinion.

Moreover, facts implies that we know everything about the universe and this isn’t so the case unless we are god. Facts are based on observations of how it has behaved in the past, and theories derived logically from those observations that predict how it will behave in the future. For example, earth is warm because of the heat from the sun, but with advancement in human technology, we may find that it is not the sun but it is from the core of the earth. This means that facts are never immortal except for historical facts. For example Singapore Polytechnic is the first polytechnic erected in Singapore and this are facts that are created by human themselves.

I am not a factual person because factual people are those who just take those numbers without appreciation of how those numbers are derived. The process of knowing how this numbers are derived is more important than the number itself because we can apply this process to other scenarios and also for our use. HOLD ON, facts are still important because it is the end product of an opinion and these facts are used to create more opinions which then, create more facts. For example, the relative atomic molecule is found by adding all the relative atomic masses of the atoms present in the molecule.