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In this paper I will argue that the author’s argument that knowledge does not exist is self-defeating and contradictory. The basis of his requirements of knowledge are tainted with his own learned experiences. I will also argue that while it is impossible to say that we know anything with one hundred percent certainty, knowledge does exist. In the article Negative Skepticism, by Oliver A. Johnson, the author argues that knowledge does not exist and that there is no true knowledge. He explains that the cognitivist (a person who believes in knowledge) has yet to offer up any argument that will satisfy his two requirements of knowledge, which are, “what they assert must be true” and “their truth must entail the truth of the conclusion in whose support they are offered.” (Johnson, 1978) He also states that t