investigates whether shared knowledge is reliable enough for us to allow it to influence our personal knowledge. Taking into consideration the above example it is clear that the effect of shared knowledge can often lead to a degrading in the quality of personal knowledge due to skewed perceptions and reasoning. All the patients were limited by their assumptions that were guided by the shared knowledge that influences their
Pre 1950s Large dams, as we know them today, were a product of the Progressive Era, a period of intense social and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. The Progressives sought to create a better and just society by checking political corruption and reigning in monopolies through anti-trust laws. More importantly, they also believed that the key to achieving these goals was efficiency in all spheres of political and public life realized through the