The term knowledge can be defined as the confident understanding of a subject.....?

Question

...But what, then, is 'confident understanding'? Is it a bodily affirmation of something cognitive? Or a cognitive affirmation of something bodily? Can we even say that there is something cognitive and something more 'bodily'.. If dualism has been disproven, then what is "cognitive" doing in our language? Is it because the feeling of cognition is different to bodliy perception? do we percieve cognition in a different way than we do the stimuli that come from our body? Or is cognition simply the same as 'feeling'? Where does the 'feeling' of confidence some in? And confident of what? Correctness? Then what exactly is it about the correctness of something that makes it so correct?

Answer 1

Is this the best and toughest you have to offer?

Your semantics need cleaning and simplification.

One "can" define anything anyway they want. Strip away the superflous wrappers.

You either understand something or you don't; it is binary.

Knowledge is the accumulation of FACTS for the purpose of interacting with your environment so to enable extending your survival.

Perception is a physical activity resulting from sensoral observation.

Cognition is the ability, through perception, to correlate.

Correctness is determined by empircal verification of consistency.

As Doyle Lonegan aptly put it, "D'ya folla?"

Answer 2

Okay. You have a lot of questions there. That's good. But we can't tackle them all at once. That will get us slaughtered.

First of all, I'm not entirely sure that dualism has been completely disproven. But even if it has, it hardly leaves no place for cognition. Instead, thought becomes and emergent property of the computing devices involved.

It's like chemistry. You COULD describe chemistry solely in terms of physics - the motion of the protons and electrons involved. You could, but it would be so ridiculously difficult that nobody does. Chemistry is a layer of complexity that emerges from the physics. So too is consciousness and thought an emergent property of neural biology.

As to what a person percieves, that is a different matter. You seem to be asking the question, "How does a person KNOW when they are understanding or confident?". Most people seem to have little trouble determining what their thoughts and feelings are. If you wish to take it to the more complex level of neurology again, you can describe how certain thought-pathways are reinforced and arrive at the pre-frontal lobe which is involved in decision-making.

But since ultimately all sensory information show up as neural signals at one point or another, arguably the only difference is the number of external influences on thoughts versus other percieved information (such as bodily perception or hormonal levels which influence thought). So it is similar, but only to a point.

I'm surprised that you need to ask what makes a correct thing correct, however. Something is correct if it works. It is incorrect if it does not work. It is not correct that cars run on chocolate ice cream. Try it. It won't work. Just as some things work better than others, some things are more correct than others.

Lastly, I would argue that "confident understanding of a subject" is not the definition of 'knowledge', but rather was the definition of 'expertise'. I expect an expert to understand things, but I do not expect this of everyone. Yet I do think everyone has a degree of knowledge.

So, in summary, people who have confident understandings of things do so because they can produce the effects they desire, at least within the small range of whatever subject they consider themselves to be confident about. They know this though the function of the memory and the input of their sensory information, as well as a fair amount of cognitive grappling with the situations involved as well. Hope that helps!

Answer 3

Knowledge=strenghth/truth-ground to standon!
proof,which is a 'simple fact' Simple fact:simple truth..
Straight-talik pure and simple...clearly seen/easy to recognize.Flashy styles =clouded visions.
Sprarkling words and drawn out ideas are not needed to show ones intellingence...giving a point...'the closest distance between 2 lines...is a straight line.Be short and to the point...saving words...saving time...exercizing wisdom...being confident by understanding.
Stella E.Griffin

Answer 4

That you feel okay and you understand whatever it is that you learned and that you use it swiftly.

Answer 5

Can you please use your brain for something useful?