What is Knowledge?

Question

What is knowledge?
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Answer 1

'Knowledge' is the stored perception about facts for conditions, situations, and positions. This includes all levels that can be sensed and understood, so mainly the outside that can be seen. The perception is bound and limited through the personality and their already established knowledge, which consist in concepts, so all new received impressions are integrated into the already existing knowledge about it, so making the concept stronger and with it the personality. 'Knowledge' is an important part of ones self image, determining ones world view and forming ones attitudes and behavior.
As 'knowledge' is part of ones personality, so it is seen as ones property and will be defended. It is often used to give self confirmation by going into discussions and demonstrating ones knowledge, fighting against different opinions, etc. Also writing books serves or participating in Internet groups. It often shows, that the demonstrated 'knowledge' is superficial, so the owner might be easily beaten by some one else, but then a wide scale of other ways to defend oneself can be used. Going into irrational arguments, getting angry, insulting the opponent, pointing out the weak spots in the other, etc.
'Knowledge' is rarely used to look at oneself, asking questions about ones behavior or other aspects of ones existence. If done, then the awareness of oneself will guide one to 'self knowledge' and then this kind of 'knowledge' will guide one to levels laying beyond 'personality knowledge'...

Answer 2

Interesting question!

I have seen different definitions of knowledge posted before me. But we must distinguish carefully the various forms of knowledge and trust only the best.

First, then, there is hearsay knowledge, by which for example, I know the day of my birth. Second, vague experience, empirical knowledge in the derogatory sense, as when a physician knows a cure not by any scientific formulations of experimental tests, but by a general impression that it has usually worked. Third, immediate deduction, or knowledge reached by reasoning, as when I conclude to the immensity of the sun from seeing that in the case of other objects distance decreases the apparent size. This kind of knowledge is superior to the other two; but is yet precariously subject to sudden refutation by direct experience; so science for a hundred years reasoned its way to an ether which is now in high disfavor with the physicist elite. Hence the highest kind of knowledge is the fourth form, which comes by immediate deduction and direct perception, as when we see at once that 6 is the missing number in the proportion 2:4::3:x; or when we perceive that the whole is greater than the part.

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Answer 3

Someone said: "So on the surface it appears to me that the lack of acquired knowledge or ignorance is next to Godliness, where the thinking mind perceives the apparent lack as something missing it is infact tantamount to the fullness of the whole."

One step has to precede the other. To see light one needs dark.Thinking and feeling is the way that we self-reflect, making ourselves visible. From observing what we can
see made visible through dark (form), we can ask questions about it and get answers which is knowing.

You can be told that you are in a dream and accept that as knowledge, but until you see it for yourself firsthand through your own observations, it is not 'your' knowledge so it won't help you to get out of the dream. The normal way the personality keeps hanging on is to acquire knowledge and then demonstrate what it knows to others - to get confirmation for oneself - even there are those that use ignorance the same way.

If you don't know you are in a dream, then there is no reason to try to get out of it. So you can stay ignorant about your dreaming, and not bother to question yourself. Which is normal because one doesn't want to find out that the one weaving the dream isn't real.

You are close in your assumptions, in that when you actually get totally quiet, it feels very much like something is missing, it feels like you are losing yourself because there is a feeling of 'not-knowing', thus it feels like death.

That's what people are afraid of and the reason why they stay ignorant.

Betsy

Answer 4

"First Knowledge" is what axioms represent. They are the "universals of universals" and are absolutely true by virtue of the terminology. But new data can change the logic to new terminologies, which themselves refute the old axiom.
"Believing" an axiom is knowledge because to believe otherwise is a contradiction of the terminology. All particulars derived from axioms are debatable, but if they make epistemological sense to you, then it must be considered "your" knowledge, even when it conflicts with everyone else's. Copernicus and Galileo come to mind in this situation.
Opinions are educated guesses based on what knowledge you do believe, but for which you have no clear and present epistemological proof.

Answer 5

Knowledge is gained through life
as life is gained through knowledge
used wisely the world could be a better place

Answer 6

Knowledge, Information learned either via our
five senses, and or spiritual knowledge via the word of God.
Or by God himself when he chooses to reveal a thought to
you. It might be interesting to look this up!JN

Answer 7

The tiny shift beyond the concept of knowledge and ignorance.

Answer 8

Knowledge, simply to say, has originated form the word Know. When anyone starts knowing one thing after another about something, he/she starts his journey to knowledge. Indeed man’s life on the earth is a journey to gain world knowledge. Then knowledge is the collective form of various learning. We can compare knowledge to a tree and all the branches of the tree are various learning.

Answer 9

Hi,
Information gleaned through learning, studying, observing and experience. Assimilating and making sense of all this information/knowledge is intellect.
Pollyanna

Answer 10

Knowledge is the data or information accurately perceived or deduced by a thinking being.