In response to andrew's post.....

This is in response to andrew's post on my post. As for the statement on the humans capacity for infinite knowledge, people will never stop trying to learn things. That is the point though. People are constantly seeking knowledge because there is no possible way for them to know everything, therefore their capacity for knowledge is finite because they will never reach the point of infinite knowledge. At least, not unless advancements in today's technology are made. Yes people will always learn until the day they die, but they will never learn it ALL. As far as people trying to learn about something goes, I am not saying to give up on learning new things all together. my point is that i believe you can relate any two objects in some way. If you try to do this your subject will lose substance. Yes, you will know more in general, but as a whole the information you learned wont be very helpful to you. Ex.) you are studying dogs for a research paper. You know that some dogs like parks, and that flowers grow in parks, so you research all the things there are to know about flowers too. If you turn in that paper the teacher is going to give you a bad grade for going off topic, even though you learned alot. this is because even though you were learning, you didnt cut yourself off from all the knowledge you could know and you went to far. I'm not saying that you should just stop learning all together, but simply that there is a time and place to learn specific things, and we don't have time to learn them all.
question: Is the whole reason we think of knowledge as being infinite because we cannot learn it all? is it possible that there is a point where knowledge begins and knowledge ends but we haven't gotten there yet?