What is KNOWLEDGE? Philosophical views only please..?

Answer 1

Isn't knowledge referring to a person's accumulated data that his mind has access to?

Wisdom refers to the ability to put the knowledge available to a person to good and practical use?

Thus knowledge alone might not be enough to solve a problem - as our world's condition seems to agree with.

Answer 2

Knowledge is what is known. Like the related concepts truth, belief, and wisdom, there is no single definition of knowledge on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of knowledge.

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, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.

Answer 3

The definition of knowledge is a live debate for philosophers. The classical definition, found in (although not ultimately endorsed by) Plato[1], has it that in order for there to be knowledge at least three criteria must be fulfilled; that in order to count as knowledge, a statement must be justified, true, and believed. Some claim that these conditions are not sufficient, as Gettier case examples allegedly demonstrate. There are a number of alternatives proposed, including Robert Nozick's arguments for a requirement that knowledge 'tracks the truth' and Simon Blackburn's additional requirement that we do not want to say that those who meet any of these conditions 'through a defect, flaw, or failure' have knowledge. Richard Kirkham suggests that our definition of knowledge requires that the believer's evidence is such that it logically necessitates the truth of the belief.

In contrast to this approach, Wittgenstein observed, following Moore's paradox, that one can say "He believes it, but it isn't so", but not "He knows it, but it isn't so". [2] He goes on to argue that these do not correspond to distinct mental states, but rather to distinct ways of talking about conviction. What is different here is not the mental state of the speaker, but the activity in which they are engaged. For example, on this account, to know that the kettle is boiling is not to be in a particular state of mind, but to perform a particular task with the statement that the kettle is boiling. Wittgenstein sought to bypass the difficulty of definition by looking to the way "knowledge" is used in natural languages. He saw knowledge as a case of a family resemblance.


Knowledge adds understanding and retention to information. It is the next natural progression after information. To have "knowledge" requires information in conjunction with patterns between data, information, and other knowledge, couples it with understanding and cognition.

Answer 4

Knowledge knocks on your brain the easiest to remember on serependity. You enjoy knowledge when you just pick them around, like Pandora who is always curious and let open the only values that flew away, that is hope.

Answer 5

Knowledge is the accumulation, organization, and use of facts and/or theories, to accumulate, organize and use more of the same; about any questions people have. There can be no knowledge without first the desire to know.

Answer 6

KNOWledge is KNOWing. It requires you to learn. It doesn't come naturally. So anyone can become knowledgeable. Many doctors are very knowledgeable but when it comes to street smarts they are dumbfounded.

Answer 7

Quantification is generally prepared on length and as such is one in all a number of kit used to income awareness, yet purely as a wood worker can not build a house with purely a hammer, as a manner to whilst coping with epistemological (theory of awareness) concerns you are able to't decrease your self to easily one gadget from the toolbox to reach on the needed result.

Answer 8

Knowledge is justified, true, belief.

1) Belief.
Suppose you met a woman and asked her if she knows the directions to the park.

"Of course, I know. Go a mile east, turn right, cross the river bearing left. It is 2 miles after that. You can't miss it," she says.

"Thanks," you say, "I seem to be lost and I am glad that you believe that if I follow your directions I'll find the park."

"I am sorry," she replies. "I didn't mean to imply that if you follow my directions you will find the park. I actually believe that you will not find it."

"But I though you knew the way to the park," you say.

She replies, "Well, I know the way, I just don't believe that I am right."

Would you think that odd? Indeed, I think you would. To say that you know something to be true, but you don't believe it to be true is very odd.

2) Justified.
Suppose you met a woman and asked her if she knows the directions to the park.

"Of course, I know. Go a mile east, turn right, cross the river bearing left. It is 2 miles after that. You can't miss it," she says.

"Thanks," you say, "I seem to be lost and I am glad that you believe that if I follow your directions I'll find the park."

"No problem," she says.

"Can you tell me what the park is like?" you ask.

"No," she says, "I just got into town. I am a total stranger to this place. In fact, I don't even have a map."

"Well, what reason do you have for where the park is?" you ask.

"I don't have any reasons. I did not mean to imply that," she says.

Again, I think you would find it odd that some says that she or he knows something to be true, but can give you any reasons at all that it should be so.

3) True

Suppose you met a woman and asked her if she knows the directions to the park.

"Of course, I know. Go a mile east, turn right, cross the river bearing left. It is 2 miles after that. You can't miss it," she says.

"Thanks," you say, "I seem to be lost and I am glad that you believe that if I follow your directions I'll find the park."

"Well, if you are lost then follow me to the park." She sets out and you follow her, but there is no park there.

"I thought you said you knew the park was here," you say.

"Well," she replies, "I know it is here, but I guess I am wrong."

No comment. :)

So, it seems that to say that you know something then you are going to have to believe it, have a reason for believing it, and it is going to have to turn out to be true.

HTH

Charles

Answer 9

knowledge is learned from experience, that's why every learned skills is a knowledge, while every lecture that you hear in a classroom is not yet a knowledge just a memorized facts if not used in practical application it will pfffft.... in a thin air after sometimes.

Answer 10

Knowledge mean Know less. So when some one know little or none, we can tell that he has knowledge.