Knowledge

Knowledge

Knowledge is defined (Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as "justified true belief". There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories.

Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning. The term "knowledge" is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject with the ability to use it for a specific purpose if appropriate.

Defining knowledge (philosophy)

[
Robert Reid, "Knowledge" (1896). Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.] )

In Gnosticism divine knowledge or gnosis is hoped to be attained and escape from the demiurge's physical world. And in Thelema knowledge and conversation with one's Holy Guardian Angel is the purpose of life, which is similar to Gnosis or enlightenment in other mystery religions.

ee also

* Analytic proposition/Synthetic proposition
* A priori/A posteriori
* Belief
* Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
* DIKW
* Epistemic logic
* Epistemology
* Figurative system of human knowledge
* Institutional knowledge
* Intelligence
* Intuition as an unconscious form of knowledge.
* Knowledge capture
* Knowledge discovery
* Knowledge engineering
* Knowledge management
* Knowledge networking
* Knowledge relativity
* Knowledge representation
* Knowledge retrieval
* Learning
* Metaknowledge
* Philosophical skepticism
* Procedural knowledge
* Propædia (outline of human knowledge)
* Propositional knowledge
* Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
* Tacit knowledge
* Theory of Knowledge
* Truth
* Knowledge is Power
* Objectivist epistemology

References

External links

* [http://www.intellecttoday.org IntellectToday] - An Organization that works to further research and development in the fields of science and knowledge.
* [http://www.wkdnews.org World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium] - An initiative to bridge the gap between the natural and the human/social sciences.
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/epist/notes/gettier.html Theory of Knowledge: The Gettier problem]
* [http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu Knowledge@Wharton] - aimed to offer free access to course materials for students, teachers, and self-learners
* [http://knowledge.insead.edu INSEAD Knowledge] - showcases INSEAD's business research with articles and podcasts.
* [http://www.imprint.co.uk/C&HK/cyber.htm Cybernetics & Human Knowing] - A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics
* [http://www.oikos.org/vGknowl.htm The Incommensurability of Scientific and Poetic Knowledge]
* [http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/WBIPROGRAMS/KFDLP/0,,menuPK:461238~pagePK:64156143~piPK:64154155~theSitePK:461198,00.html Knowledge for Development Program] - World Bank Institute


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