What is knowledge? What does it mean to know? (Please no dictionary definitions, I'm looking for an intelligent, philosophical analysis of this question) I seek the answer to satiate my own intellectual curiosity.
2007-11-26 05:19:35 · 8 answers · asked by zunefan1 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
this is one of the most fundamental pursuits of philosophy, there is no one answer. Philosophers debate this all the time.
Does a born-again xian "know" that god exists? Does he believe it? Obviously I "know" that he doesn't and I "know" the sun will be there tomorrow... but it might not.
So there are varying definitions.
2007-11-26 05:23:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Outta my league here, but my opinion:
Knowledge is the proven understanding of a set of concepts.
Without proof, you've just got theory. As more concepts become proven the original base of knowledge may be adjusted to accomodate them. As further tests refute the original proofs, the original base of knowledge may be adjusted to accomodate.
Think I'll grab a coffee, this is heavy stuff. Hmm where's the sugar, I KNOW I left it on the counter??
2007-11-26 05:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by lorus_900 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Climbing Mount Analog, you know ledge; as a previous answerer said, knowledge is retained in-formation, order out of chaotic or diffuse data streaming.
The soulfield or biofield of the knower, retainer of order, coherent feelings, is in turn modified, developed, by the knowing.
When the soulfield and knowing become more coherent, truth-full, there are degrees or steps of ascension upon the Jacobean ladder of knowing.
"I think, therefore I am" or "I am, therefore I am able to think, feel, etc." is a key step up the ladder of coherency.
"I and My Father are One" is even more Knowing.
"Extraordinary Knowing," Elizabeth Mayer, Ph.D., explores various degrees of knowing.
"Entering the Circle" and "The Master of Lucid Dreams," Olga Kharitidi, M.D., "Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton, "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D., "Life before Life," Jim Tucker, M.D., "The Beautful Story of a Master," Louise-Marie Frenette, "Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves, "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com "Light Is a Living Spirit," O. M. Aivanhov, "Babies Remember Birth," David Chamberlain, Ph.D., http://www.quantumbrain.org "Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer," Yvonne von Fettweis, http://www.integralscience.org "Psychoenergetic Science," William A. Tiller, Ph.D., http://www.tiller.org and "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, examine various types of knowledge.
cordially,
j.
2007-11-26 07:24:44 · answer #3 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply put, knowledge is retained information. I apologize if that sounds too much like a definition, but it really is that simple. Anything you learn is, to some degree and in some manner, knowledge.
2007-11-26 05:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by Master Maverick 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The foundation of knowledge is ignorance. Without ignorance, knowledge would not exist. Likewise with knowledge, ignorance could not exist without it. True "Knowing" happens in between knowledge and ignorance!
2007-11-26 06:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is the separation of the principle form, unified essence, oneness, (what ever you conceive it as), into subject and object or 'I' / 'not I' and remembering what you've named 'not I'. The various forms and plethora of names are just continued aggregate and complexity of the original mechanism.
2007-11-26 05:26:46 · answer #6 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can be said to have "knowledge" when our cognition of perceptions bears a logical realtionship to empirical reality. This relationship is made through the faculty of epistemology.
2007-11-26 05:44:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My personal conclusion is that "knowledge" is the act of having lived any experience which you can "share by relating" it.
2007-11-26 06:27:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋