We are constructors of our own knowledge as well as knowing what we know and what we do not know about the universe. Knowledge can be viewed and defined in many depending on the person, culture, religion, and lifestyle. Whether people like Sagan or Hawking may dispute their point of views of the universe, they also pertain to have similarities about it as well. Our own beliefs of what knowledge represents to society as well as individually to us can often be subject to outside influence. The common conception of knowledge is that there only exists a minute amount of truly original knowledge while the rest come from the opinions of others. Overall, understanding is key to knowledge, it cannot be gained without prior knowledge and comparing our
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Mental processing is bringing in self-ideas and interpreting it through a variety of different perspectives. Therefore, the key to knowledge is by first understanding what is being learned and by this, can be used as a powerful tool in comprehension. The numerously different amount of ways through which people view knowledge and their interpretation of it corresponds to the variety seen in multiple different cultures. Knowledge is the way in which individuals use their beliefs, attitudes, and goals that affect the way they see knowledge and can help in correcting or manipulating the things known. A prime example shown in the readings of Hawking’s underlines the theories in which discoveries were made and proves how affective prior knowledge can be. The use of Einstein’s predictions showed how it matched with Newton’s theory, which proved how another theory was created, this lead to many conclusions. In addition, it takes others help in improving others own knowledge, that is why one cannot truly gain knowledge without prior knowledge of others or from experience. With the experiences people gain and the mistakes they make, it helps others and many times …show more content…
People may ask the question, why are some notions “knowledge” and others not? The real answer to be given for this is that there are values to everything that becomes known. Everything can be applied to be fitting in life and there is no wrong way or wrong kind of knowledge. Some examples taken from Core Friday lecture, What Do We Know?, Hothem mentions the many kinds of knowledge that are pertained, that others may think of as wasteful. There are kinds of knowledge all distinct between individuals and more to this day and time. Conceptual is a type that implicates theories and model of things and is used as an understanding system. It focuses more on learning how things work by knowing where they came from. In addition we have street smarts which is a rare type that many posses as it helps them know where to get to places and meta-knowledge is for individuals who use or make things with their imagination. These forms of knowledge show in a sense that everyone is different as well as describing how each one of us has our own way of
Mental processing is bringing in self-ideas and interpreting it through a variety of different perspectives. Therefore, the key to knowledge is by first understanding what is being learned and by this, can be used as a powerful tool in comprehension. The numerously different amount of ways through which people view knowledge and their interpretation of it corresponds to the variety seen in multiple different cultures. Knowledge is the way in which individuals use their beliefs, attitudes, and goals that affect the way they see knowledge and can help in correcting or manipulating the things known. A prime example shown in the readings of Hawking’s underlines the theories in which discoveries were made and proves how affective prior knowledge can be. The use of Einstein’s predictions showed how it matched with Newton’s theory, which proved how another theory was created, this lead to many conclusions. In addition, it takes others help in improving others own knowledge, that is why one cannot truly gain knowledge without prior knowledge of others or from experience. With the experiences people gain and the mistakes they make, it helps others and many times …show more content…
People may ask the question, why are some notions “knowledge” and others not? The real answer to be given for this is that there are values to everything that becomes known. Everything can be applied to be fitting in life and there is no wrong way or wrong kind of knowledge. Some examples taken from Core Friday lecture, What Do We Know?, Hothem mentions the many kinds of knowledge that are pertained, that others may think of as wasteful. There are kinds of knowledge all distinct between individuals and more to this day and time. Conceptual is a type that implicates theories and model of things and is used as an understanding system. It focuses more on learning how things work by knowing where they came from. In addition we have street smarts which is a rare type that many posses as it helps them know where to get to places and meta-knowledge is for individuals who use or make things with their imagination. These forms of knowledge show in a sense that everyone is different as well as describing how each one of us has our own way of