Understanding Knowledge: Sources, Forms, and Philosophy
What Is to Know?
Saber (to know) is a term related to taste, understanding, trying, and finding things. Knowledge is a direct contact with reality in a manner that seeks to distinguish and understand it. Knowing involves elements, such as being aware of what one knows, giving reasons to others, and having a critical attitude. Knowledge is an apprehension of reality; reality is fixed in a subject, expressed, and transmitted to other subjects and incorporated into a tradition.
Sources of Knowledge
There are various sources of knowledge: sensibility and reason.
- Sensibility provides the basic experience, which is tied to intelligence.
- Experience and reason are always mixed. For example, when an object falls, we can base it on the theory of Aristotle or Newton.
- Experience depends on the human capacity to produce and interpret it. Therefore, we can talk about religious experience, scientific experience, and everyday experience.
- Reason also has diverse ways of knowing linked to experience: immediate, like intuitions; mediate, like deductions, reflection, etc.
Forms of Knowledge
Knowledge can be classified depending on the form of experience:
- Everyday
- Scientific
- Technical
- Religious
- Artistic
- Philosophical
Common Knowledge
It is the knowledge that is based on everyday experience. For example, knowing that iron weighs more than lead, but not knowing how to demonstrate it.
Scientific Knowledge
Common knowledge does not seek order and consistency or explain why facts are this way. In contrast, scientific knowledge can be said to be rigorous, seeking order, consistency, and criticism. Scientific knowledge is unlike philosophical knowledge because scientific knowledge uses experimentation and mathematics.
Technical Knowledge
Technical knowledge consists of knowing how activities are done, looking like a science conquering the world. There are relationships between science and technology: technique tells science to discover new things, and science tells technique to make telescopes for astronomy.
Philosophical Knowledge
Philosophical knowledge is within making a philosophical question; philosophical experience is acquired by thinking. To philosophize is to think, but not in any way, but using reason to argue critically and rigorously to understand reality.
Artistic Knowledge
This is more related to narration than to explanation. Literature, film, and poetry recount life; they are forms of knowing reality.
Religious Knowledge
Religious knowledge is about the divine or the sacred. Religious knowledge is everything that has to do with religious beliefs, etc.
Philosophy
Philosophy gives meaning to everything, thinks, understands, and explains something that previously was not understood. It is the ability to decide for yourself. There is also a practical part: a philosopher who knows something and does not put it into practice is not a philosopher.
Philosophy: Edged desire and search. Sofia: love of wisdom.
Philosophy Phrases
- The philosophy of life: The way you think about things.
- Take things with philosophy: To think things through before doing them.
Philosophers
He who wants to love wisdom, for the breadth of knowledge.
Injured Person
Bad for someone. Something bad happens later, and it happened with merit.
Prejudice
Prejudging. When you argue with someone who is saying something, you say that without knowing if it’s true or not.