Knowledge
Knowledge
Knowledge
Knowledge
Knowledge can be produced in many ways. The most important source of empirical knowledge is
perception, which is the usage of the senses. Many theorists also include introspection as a source
of knowledge, not of external physical objects, but of one's own mental states. Other sources often
discussed include memory, rational intuition, inference, and testimony. According to
foundationalism, some of these sources are basic in the sense that they can justify beliefs without
depending on other mental states. This claim is rejected by coherentists, who contend that a
sufficient degree of coherence among all the mental states of the believer is necessary for
knowledge. According to infinitism, an infinite chain of beliefs is needed.
Many aspects of knowledge are investigated, and it plays a role in various disciplines. It is the
primary subject of the field of epistemology, which studies what someone knows, how they come to
know it, and what it means to know something. The problem of the value of knowledge concerns
the question of why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief. Philosophical skepticism is
the thesis that humans lack any form of knowledge or that knowledge is impossible. Formal
epistemology studies, among other things, the rules governing how knowledge and related states
behave and in what relations they stand to each other. Science tries to acquire knowledge using the
scientific method, which is based on repeatable experimentation, observation, and measurement.
Many religions hold that humans should seek knowledge and that God or the divine is the source
of knowledge.
Definitions
Numerous definitions of knowledge have been suggested.[1][2][3] Most definitions of knowledge in
analytic philosophy recognize three basic types. "Knowledge-that", also called propositional
knowledge, can be expressed using that-clauses as in "I know that Dave is at home".[4][5][6]
"Knowledge-how" (know-how) expresses practical competence, as in "she knows how to swim".
Finally, "knowledge by acquaintance" refers to a familiarity with the known object based on
previous direct experience.[5][7][8] Analytical philosophers usually aim to identify the essential
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features of propositional knowledge in their definitions.[9] There is wide, though not universal,
agreement among philosophers that knowledge involves a cognitive success or an epistemic
contact with reality, like making a discovery. It is also widely accepted that propositional
knowledge is a form of true belief.[10][11]
Despite the agreement about these general characteristics of knowledge, its exact definition is
disputed. The disagreements relate to the goals and methods within epistemology and other fields.
They also concern disputes about the standards of knowledge that people intend to uphold, for
example, what degree of certainty is needed. One approach is to focus on knowledge's most salient
features in order to give a practically useful definition.[12][5] Another is to try to provide a
theoretically precise definition by listing the conditions that are individually necessary and jointly
sufficient. The term "analysis of knowledge" (or equivalently, "conception of knowledge" or "theory
of knowledge") is often used for this approach.[1][13][14] It can be understood in analogy to how
chemists analyze a sample by seeking a list of all the chemical elements composing it.[1][15][16] An
example of this approach is characterizing knowledge as justified true belief (JTB), which is seen
by many as the standard definition.[4][17] Others seek a common core among diverse forms of
knowledge, for example, that they all involve some kind of awareness or that they all belong to a
special type of successful performance.[11][18][19][20]
Methodological differences concern whether scholars base their inquiry on abstract and general
intuitions or on concrete and specific cases. These two positions are known as methodism and
particularism.[21][22][23] Another source of disagreement is the role of ordinary language in one's
inquiry: the weight given to how the term "knowledge" is used in everyday discourse.[6][14]
According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, for example, there is no clear-cut definition of knowledge since
it is just a cluster of concepts related through family resemblance.[24][25] Different conceptions of
the standards of knowledge are also responsible for disagreements. Some epistemologists, like
René Descartes, hold that knowledge demands very high requirements, like certainty, and is
therefore quite rare. Others see knowledge as a rather common phenomenon, prevalent in many
everyday situations, without excessively high standards.[1][5][26]
Epistemology, also referred to as the theory of knowledge, is the philosophical discipline studying
knowledge. It studies topics like the nature of knowledge and justification, how knowledge arises,
and what value it has. Further issues include the different types of knowledge and the extent to
which the beliefs of most people amount to knowledge as well as the limits of what can be
known.[36][37][11]
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The JTB definition solves this problem by identifying proper justification as the additional
component needed. This component is absent in the above-mentioned cases. Many philosophers
understand justification internalistically (internalism): a belief is justified if it is supported by
another mental state of the person, such as a sensory experience, a memory, or a second belief.
This mental state has to constitute a sufficiently strong evidence or reason for the believed claim.
Some modern versions modify the JTB definition by using an externalist conception of
justification instead. This means that justification depends not just on factors internal to the
subject but also on external factors. According to reliabilist theories of justification, justified beliefs
are produced by a reliable process. According to causal theories, justification requires that the
believed fact causes the belief. This is the case, for example, when a bird sits on a tree and a person
forms a belief about this fact because they see the bird.[1][4][5]
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The responses to these counterexamples have been diverse. According to some, they show that the
JTB definition of knowledge is deeply flawed and that a radical reconceptualization of knowledge
is necessary, often by denying justification a role.[1] This can happen, for example, by replacing it
with reliability or by seeing knowledge as the manifestation of cognitive virtues. Another approach
is to define it in regard to the cognitive role it plays. For example, one role of knowledge is to
provide reasons for thinking something or for doing something.[11] Various theorists are
diametrically opposed to the radical reconceptualization. They either deny that Gettier cases pose
problems or try to solve them by making smaller modifications to how justification is defined.
Such approaches result in a minimal modification of the JTB definition.[1]
Between these two extremes, some philosophers have suggested moderate departures. They agree
that the JTB definition includes some correct claims: justified true belief is a necessary condition
of knowledge. However, they disagree that it is a sufficient condition. They hold instead that an
additional criterion, some feature X, is necessary for knowledge. For this reason, they are often
referred to as JTB+X definitions of knowledge.[1][46] A closely related approach speaks not of
justification but of warrant and defines warrant as justification together with whatever else is
necessary to arrive at knowledge.[4][47]
Many candidates for the fourth feature have been suggested. In this regard, knowledge may be
defined as justified true belief that does not depend on any false beliefs, that there are no
defeaters[a] present, or that the person would not have the belief if it was false.[14][45] Such and
similar definitions are successful at avoiding many of the original Gettier cases. However, they are
often undermined by newly conceived counterexamples.[49] To avoid all possible cases, it may be
necessary to find a criterion that excludes all forms of epistemic luck. It has been argued that such
a criterion would set the required standards of knowledge very high: the belief has to be infallible
to succeed in all cases.[5][50] This would mean that very few of our beliefs amount to knowledge, if
any.[5][51][52] For example, Richard Kirkham suggests that our definition of knowledge requires
that the evidence for the belief necessitates its truth.[53] There is still very little consensus in the
academic discourse as to which of the proposed modifications or reconceptualizations is
correct.[1][54][11]
Types
A common distinction among types of knowledge is between propositional knowledge, or
knowledge-that, and non-propositional knowledge in the form of practical skills or
acquaintance.[5][55][56] The distinctions between these major types are usually drawn based on the
linguistic formulations used to express them.[1]
Propositional knowledge
Non-propositional knowledge
Knowledge by acquaintance is familiarity with an individual that results from direct experiential
contact with this individual.[5][6][8] This individual can be a person or a regular object. On the
linguistic level, it is usually expressed without a that-clause by using using a direct object. So when
someone claims that they know Wladimir Klitschko personally, they are expressing that they had a
certain kind of contact with him and not that they know a certain fact about him. In this regard, it
is a relation to a concrete individual and not a relation to a proposition. Knowledge by
acquaintance plays a central role in Bertrand Russell's epistemology. He contrasts it with
knowledge by description, which is a form of propositional knowledge not based on direct
perceptual experience.[62][63][5] However, there is some controversy about whether it is possible to
acquire knowledge by acquaintance in its pure non-propositional form. In this regard, some
theorists, like Peter D. Klein, have suggested that it can be understood as one type of propositional
knowledge that is only expressed in a grammatically different way.[4]
Other distinctions
The distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge came to prominence in Immanuel
Kant's philosophy and is often discussed in the academic literature. To which of these two
categories a knowledge attitude belongs depends on the role of experience in its formation and
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The relevant experience in question is primarily identified with sensory experience. However,
some non-sensory experiences, like memory and introspection, are often included as well. But
some conscious phenomena are excluded in this context. For example, the conscious phenomenon
of a rational insight into the solution of a mathematical problem does not make the resulting
knowledge a posteriori.[64][65] It is sometimes argued that, in a trivial sense, some form of
experience is needed even for a priori knowledge: the experience to learn the language in which
the claim is expressed. For a priori knowledge, this is the only form of experience required. For
this reason, knowing that "all bachelors are unmarried" is considered a form of a priori
knowledge. The reason is that for a person who understands the terms "bachelor" and
"unmarried", no further experience is necessary to know that it is true.[64][65]
One difficulty for a priori knowledge is to explain how it is possible. It is usually seen as
unproblematic that one can come to know things through experience but it is not clear how
knowledge is possible without experience. One of the earliest solutions to this problem is due to
Plato. He argues that, in the context of geometry, the soul already possesses the knowledge and
just needs to recollect or remember it to access it again.[68][69] A similar explanation is given by
René Descartes, who holds that a priori knowledge exists as innate knowledge present in the mind
of each human.[68] A further approach is to posit a special mental faculty responsible for this type
of knowledge, often referred to as rational insight or rational intuition.[64]
Self-knowledge
In a slightly different sense, the term self-knowledge can also refer to the knowledge of the self as a
persisting entity. This entity has personality traits, preferences, physical attributes, relationships,
goals, and social identities. This sense of self-knowledge is of particular interest to psychology and
refers to a person's awareness of their own characteristics.[73][74][75] Self-knowledge is closely
related to self-concept, the difference being that the self-concept also includes unrealistic aspects
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of how a person sees themselves. In this regard, self-knowledge is often measured by comparing a
person's self-assessment of their character traits with how other people assess this person's
traits.[74]
Situated knowledge
Many forms of eastern spirituality and religion distinguish between higher and lower knowledge.
They are also referred to as para vidya and apara vidya in Hinduism or the two truths doctrine in
Buddhism. Lower knowledge is based on the senses and the intellect. In this regard, all forms of
empirical and objective knowledge belong to this category.[80][81] Most of the knowledge needed in
one's everyday functioning is lower knowledge. It is about mundane or conventional things that
are in tune with common sense. It includes the body of knowledge belonging to the empirical
sciences.[80][82][83]
Higher knowledge, on the other hand, is understood as knowledge of God, the absolute, the true
self, or the ultimate reality. It belongs neither to the external world of physical objects nor to the
internal world of the experience of emotions and concepts. Many spiritual teachings stress the
increased importance, or sometimes even exclusive importance, of higher knowledge in
comparison to lower knowledge. This is usually based on the idea that achieving higher knowledge
is one of the central steps on the spiritual path. In this regard, higher knowledge is seen as what
frees the individual from ignorance, helps them realize God, or liberates them from the cycle of
rebirth.[81][82] This is often combined with the view that lower knowledge is in some way based on
a delusion: it belongs to the realm of mere appearances or Maya, while higher knowledge manages
to view the reality underlying these appearances.[83] In the Buddhist tradition, the attainment of
higher knowledge or ultimate truth is often linked to seeing the world from the perspective of
sunyata, i.e. as a form of emptiness lacking inherent existence or intrinsic nature.[80][84][85]
Common knowledge
Common knowledge is knowledge that is publicly known by everyone or nearly everyone, usually
with reference to the community in which the knowledge is referenced.[86] Common knowledge
can be about a broad range of subjects, such as science, literature, history, or entertainment.[86]
Since individuals often have different knowledge bases, common knowledge can vary and may
sometimes take large-scale studies to know for certain what is common knowledge amongst large
groups of people.[87] Often, common knowledge does not need to be cited.[88] Common knowledge
is distinct from general knowledge.
In broader terms, common knowledge is used to refer to information that an agent would accept as
valid, such as information that multiple users may know.[87] Assigning something the label of
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common knowledge requires certain considerations about the involved community, group, society
and/or individuals, the time period, and the location.[86]
Domain knowledge
Domain knowledge is knowledge of a specific, specialised discipline or field, in contrast to general
(or domain-independent) knowledge. The term is often used in reference to a more general
discipline—for example, in describing a software engineer who has general knowledge of computer
programming as well as domain knowledge about developing programs for a particular industry.
People with domain knowledge are often regarded as specialists or experts in their field.
Metaknowledge
zero order meta-knowledge is knowledge whose domain is not knowledge (and hence zero
order meta-knowledge is not meta-knowledge per se)
first order meta-knowledge is knowledge whose domain is zero order meta-knowledge
second order meta-knowledge is knowledge whose domain is first order meta-knowledge
most generally, order meta-knowledge is knowledge whose domain is order meta-
knowledge.[90]
Other authors call zero order meta-knowledge first order knowledge, and call first order meta-
knowledge second order knowledge; meta-knowledge is also known as higher order knowledge.[91]
Sources of knowledge
Sources of knowledge are ways how people come to know things. According to Andrea Kern, they
can be understood as rational capacities that are exercised when a person acquires new
knowledge.[92] Various sources of knowledge are discussed in the academic literature, often in
terms of the mental faculties responsible. They include perception, introspection, memory,
inference, and testimony. However, not everyone agrees that all of them actually lead to
knowledge. Usually, perception or observation, i.e. using one of the senses, is identified as the
most important source of empirical knowledge.[5][6][93] So knowing that the baby is sleeping is
observational knowledge if it was caused by a perception of the snoring baby. But this would not be
the case if one learned about this fact through a telephone conversation with one's spouse. Direct
realists explain observational knowledge by holding that perception is a direct contact with the
perceived object. Indirect realists, on the other hand, contend that this contact happens indirectly:
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people can only directly perceive sense data, which are then interpreted as representing external
objects. This contrast affects whether the knowledge of external objects is direct or indirect and
may thus have an impact on how certain perceptual knowledge is.[11]
Memory is usually identified as another source of knowledge. It differs from perception and
introspection in that it is not as independent or basic as they are since it depends on other previous
experiences.[11][94] The faculty of memory retains knowledge acquired in the past and makes it
accessible in the present, as when remembering a past event or a friend's phone number.[95][96] It
is generally seen a reliable source of knowledge. But it can be deceptive at times nonetheless,
either because the original experience was unreliable or because the memory degraded and does
not accurately represent the original experience anymore.[11]
Knowledge based on perception, introspection, or memory may also give rise to inferential
knowledge, which comes about when reasoning is applied to draw inferences from another known
fact.[5][6][11] In this regard, the perceptual knowledge of a Czech stamp on a postcard may give rise
to the inferential knowledge that one's friend is visiting the Czech Republic. According to
rationalists, some forms of knowledge are completely independent of observation and
introspection. They are needed to explain how certain a priori beliefs, like the mathematical belief
that 2 + 2 = 4, constitute knowledge. Some theorists, like Robert Audi, hold that the faculty of pure
reason or rational intuition is responsible in these cases. This faculty can be used to explain why
such general and abstract beliefs amount to knowledge even though there seem to be no sensory
perceptions that could justify.[94][97] However, difficulties in providing a clear account of pure
reason or rational intuition have led some empirically minded epistemologists to doubt that they
constitute independent sources of knowledge.[5][6][11] A closely related approach is to hold that
this type of knowledge is innate. According to Plato's theory of recollection, for example, it is
accessed through a special form of remembering.[5][6]
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pronouncing the testimony: only testimony from reliable sources can lead to knowledge.[11][98][99]
Structure of knowledge
The structure of knowledge is the way in which the mental states of a person need to be related to
each other for knowledge to arise.[100][101] Most theorists hold that, among other things, an agent
has to have good reasons for holding a belief if this belief is to amount to knowledge. So when
challenged, the agent may justify their belief by referring to their reason for holding it. In many
cases, this reason is itself a belief that may as well be challenged. So when the agent believes that
Ford cars are cheaper than BMWs because they believe to have heard this from a reliable source,
they may be challenged to justify why they believe that their source is reliable. Whatever support
they present may also be challenged.[4][11][14] This threatens to lead to an infinite regress since the
epistemic status at each step depends on the epistemic status of the previous step.[102][103]
Theories of the structure of knowledge offer responses for how to solve this problem.[4][11][14]
Coherentists and infinitists avoid these problems by denying the contrast between basic and non-
basic reasons. Coherentists argue that there is only a finite number of reasons, which mutually
support each other and thereby ensure each other's epistemic status.[4][11] Their critics contend
that this is the fallacy of circular reasoning.[104][105] For example, if belief b1 supports belief b2 and
belief b2 supports belief b1, the agent has a reason for accepting one belief if they already have the
other. However, their mutual support alone is not a good reason for newly accepting both beliefs at
once. A closely related issue is that there can be distinct sets of coherent beliefs. Coherentists face
the problem of explaining why someone should accept one coherent set rather than another.[4][11]
For infinitists, in contrast to foundationalists and coherentists, there is an infinite number of
reasons. This position faces the problem of explaining how human knowledge is possible at all, as
it seems that the human mind is limited and cannot possess an infinite number of reasons.[4] In
their traditional forms, both foundationalists and coherentists face the Gettier problem, i.e. that
having a reason or justification for a true belief is not sufficient for knowledge in cases where
cognitive luck is responsible for the success.[4][106]
Value of knowledge
Knowledge may be valuable either because it is useful or because it is good in itself. Knowledge can
be useful by helping a person achieve their goals. An example of this form of instrumental value is
knowledge of a disease, which can be beneficial because it enables a person to identify and treat
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The problem of the value of knowledge is often discussed in relation to reliabilism and virtue
epistemology.[110][109][112] Reliabilism can be defined as the thesis that knowledge is reliably-
formed true belief. On this view, it is difficult to explain how a reliable belief-forming process adds
additional value.[110] According to an analogy by Linda Zagzebski, a cup of coffee made by a
reliable coffee machine has the same value as an equally good cup of coffee made by an unreliable
coffee machine.[113] This difficulty in solving the value problem is sometimes used as an argument
against reliabilism. Virtue epistemologists see knowledge as the manifestation of cognitive virtues
and can thus argue that knowledge has additional value due to its association with virtue.
However, not everyone agrees that knowledge actually has additional value over true belief. A
similar view is defended by Jonathan Kvanvig, who argues that the main epistemic value resides
not in knowledge but in understanding, which implies grasping how one's beliefs cohere with each
other.[110][109][114]
Philosophical skepticism
Philosophical skepticism in its strongest form, also referred to as global skepticism, is the thesis
that humans lack any form of knowledge or that knowledge is impossible. Very few philosophers
have explicitly defended this position. However, it has been influential nonetheless, usually in a
negative sense: many scholars see it as a serious challenge to any epistemological theory and often
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One issue revealed through these thought experiments is the Pyrrho of Elis was one of the first
problem of underdetermination: that the evidence available is
philosophical skeptics.
not sufficient to make a rational decision between competing
theories. And if two contrary hypotheses explain the
appearances equally well, then the agent is not justified in believing one of those hypotheses rather
than the other. Based on this premise, the general skeptic has to argue that this is true for all our
knowledge, that there is always an alternative and very different explanation.[11] Another skeptic
argument is based on the idea that human cognition is fallible and therefore lacks absolute
certainty. More specific arguments target particular theories of knowledge, such as
foundationalism or coherentism, and try to show that their concept of knowledge is deeply
flawed.[4][11] An important argument against global skepticism is that it seems to contradict itself:
the claim that there is no knowledge appears to constitute a knowledge-claim itself.[6] Other
responses come from common sense philosophy and reject global skepticism based on the fact that
it contradicts many plausible ordinary beliefs. It is then argued against skepticism by seeing
common sense as more reliable than the abstract reasoning cited in favor of skepticism.[11][115]
Less radical forms of skepticism deny that knowledge exists within a specific area or discipline,
sometimes referred to as local or selective skepticism.[5][6][11] It is often motivated by the idea that
certain phenomena do not accurately represent their subject matter. They may thus lead to false
impressions concerning its nature. External world skeptics hold that one can only know about
one's own sensory impressions and experiences but not about the external world. This is based on
the idea that beliefs about the external world are mediated through the senses. The senses are
faulty at times and may thus show things that are not really there. This problem is avoided on the
level of sensory impressions, which are given to the experiencer directly without an intermediary.
In this sense, the person may be wrong about seeing a red Ferrari in the street since it might have
been a Maserati or a mere light reflection. But they cannot be wrong about having a sensory
impression of the color red.[5][6][11]
The inverse path is taken by some materialists, who accept the existence of the external physical
world but deny the existence of the internal realm of mind and consciousness. One reason for
taking this position is the difficulty of explaining how the two realms can exist together.[14] Other
forms of local skepticism accept scientific knowledge but deny the possibility of moral knowledge,
for example, because there is no reliable way to empirically measure whether a moral claim is true
or false.[5]
The issue of the definition and standards of knowledge is central to the question of whether
skepticism in its different forms is true. If very high standards are used, for example, that
knowledge implies infallibility, then skepticism becomes more plausible. In this case, the skeptic
only has to show that no belief is absolutely certain; that while the actual belief is true, it could
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have been false. However, the more these standards are weakened to how the term is used in
everyday language, the less plausible skepticism becomes.[6][116][11] For example, such a position is
defended in the pragmatist epistemology, which sees all beliefs and theories as fallible hypotheses
and holds that they may need to be revised as new evidence is acquired.[117][118][119]
In various disciplines
Formal epistemology
Formal epistemology studies knowledge using formal tools, such as mathematics and logic.[120] An
important issue in this field concerns the epistemic principles of knowledge. These are rules
governing how knowledge and related states behave and in what relations they stand to each other.
The transparency principle, also referred to as the luminosity of knowledge, is an often discussed
principle. It states that knowing something implies the second-order knowledge that one knows it.
This principle implies that if Heike knows that today is Monday, then she also knows that she
knows that today is Monday.[11][121][122] Other commonly discussed principles are the conjunction
principle, the closure principle, and the evidence transfer principle. For example, the conjunction
principle states that having two justified beliefs in two separate propositions implies that the agent
is also justified in believing the conjunction of these two propositions. In this regard, if Bob knows
that dogs are animals and he also knows that cats are animals, then he knows the conjunction of
these two propositions, i.e. he knows that dogs and cats are animals.[4]
Science
The scientific approach is usually regarded as an exemplary process for how to gain knowledge
about empirical facts.[123][124] Scientific knowledge includes mundane knowledge about easily
observable facts, for example, chemical knowledge that certain reactants become hot when mixed
together. But it also encompasses knowledge of less tangible issues, like claims about the behavior
of genes, neutrinos, and black holes.[125]
A key aspect of most forms of science is that they seek natural laws that explain empirical
observations.[123][124] Scientific knowledge is discovered and tested using the scientific method.
This method aims to arrive at reliable knowledge by formulating the problem in a clear way and by
ensuring that the evidence used to support or refute a specific theory is public, reliable, and
replicable. This way, other researchers can repeat the experiments and observations in the initial
study to confirm or disconfirm it.[126] The scientific method is often analyzed as a series of steps.
According to some formulations, it begins with regular observation and data collection. Based on
these insights, the scientists then try to find a hypothesis that explains the observations. The
hypothesis is then tested using a controlled experiment to compare whether predictions based on
the hypothesis match the actual results. As a last step, the results are interpreted and a conclusion
is reached whether and to what degree the findings confirm or disconfirm the
hypothesis.[127][128][129]
The progress of scientific knowledge is traditionally seen as a gradual and continuous process in
which the existing body of knowledge is increased in each step. However, this view has been
challenged by some philosophers of science, such as Thomas Kuhn. He holds that between phases
of incremental progress, there are so-called scientific revolutions in which a paradigm shift occurs.
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According to this view, some basic assumptions are changed due to the paradigm shift. This results
in a radically new perspective on the body of scientific knowledge that is incommensurable with
the previous outlook.[130][131]
Religion
Knowledge plays a central role in many religions. Knowledge claims about the existence of God or
religious doctrines about how each one should live their lives are found in almost every
culture.[132] However, such knowledge claims are often controversial and are commonly rejected
by religious skeptics and atheists.[133] The epistemology of religion is the field of inquiry studying
whether belief in God and in other religious doctrines is rational and amounts to
knowledge.[132][134] One important view in this field is evidentialism. It states that belief in
religious doctrines is justified if it is supported by sufficient evidence. Suggested examples of
evidence for religious doctrines include religious experiences such as direct contact with the divine
or inner testimony as when hearing God's voice.[132][134][135] However, evidentialists often reject
that belief in religious doctrines amount to knowledge based on the claim that there is not
sufficient evidence.[132][134] A famous saying in this regard is due to Bertrand Russell. When asked
how he would justify his lack of belief in God when facing his judgment after death, he replied "Not
enough evidence, God! Not enough evidence."[132]
However, religious teachings about the existence and nature of God are not always seen as
knowledge claims by their defenders. Some explicitly state that the proper attitude towards such
doctrines is not knowledge but faith. This is often combined with the assumption that these
doctrines are true but cannot be fully understood by reason or verified through rational inquiry.
For this reason, it is claimed that one should accept them even though they do not amount to
knowledge.[133] Such a view is reflected in a famous saying by Immanuel Kant where he claims
that he "had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."[136]
Distinct religions often differ from each other concerning the doctrines they proclaim as well as
their understanding of the role of knowledge in religious practice.[137][138] In both the Jewish and
the Christian tradition, knowledge plays a role in the fall of man in which Adam and Eve were
expelled from the Garden of Eden. Responsible for this fall was that they ignored God's command
and ate from the tree of knowledge, which gave them the knowledge of good and evil. This is seen
as a rebellion against God since this knowledge belongs to God and it is not for humans to decide
what is right or wrong.[139][140][141] In the Christian literature, knowledge is seen as one of the
seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.[142] In Islam, "the Knowing" (al-ʿAlīm) is one of the 99 names
reflecting distinct attributes of God. The Qur'an asserts that knowledge comes from God and the
acquisition of knowledge is encouraged in the teachings of Muhammad.[143][144]
In Buddhism, knowledge that leads to liberation is called vijjā. It contrasts with avijjā or
ignorance, which is understood as the root of all suffering. This is often explained in relation to the
claim that humans suffer because they crave things that are impermanent. The ignorance of the
impermanent nature of things is seen as the factor responsible for this craving.[145][146][147] The
central goal of Buddhist practice is to stop suffering. This aim is to be achieved by understanding
and practicing the teaching known as the Four Noble Truths and thereby overcoming
ignorance.[146][147] Knowledge plays a key role in the classical path of Hinduism known as jñāna
yoga or "path of knowledge". Its aim is to achieve oneness with the divine by fostering an
understanding of the self and its relation to Brahman or ultimate reality.[148][149]
Anthropology
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People belonging to the same social group usually understand things and organize knowledge in
similar ways to one another. In this regard, social identities play a significant role: people who
associate themselves with similar identities, like age-influenced, professional, religious, and ethnic
identities, tend to embody similar forms of knowledge. Such identities concern both how a person
sees themselves, for example, in terms of the ideals they pursue, as well as how other people see
them, such as the expectations they have toward the person.[150][155]
Sociology
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Artificial intelligence
Knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR, KR&R, KR²) is the field of artificial intelligence
(AI) dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can
use to solve complex tasks such as diagnosing a medical condition or having a dialog in a natural
language. Knowledge representation incorporates findings from psychology[163] about how
humans solve problems and represent knowledge in order to design formalisms that will make
complex systems easier to design and build. Knowledge representation and reasoning also
incorporates findings from logic to automate various kinds of reasoning, such as the application of
rules or the relations of sets and subsets.
See also
Epistemic modal logic – subfield of modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about
knowledge
General knowledge – Type of information
Inductive inference – Method of logical reasoning
Inductive probability – Determining the probability of future events based on past events
Intelligence – Ability to perceive, infer, retain or apply information
Knowledge falsification – Deliberate misrepresentation of knowledge
Knowledge transfer – Sharing knowledge for problem solving
Omniscience – Capacity to know everything
Outline of human intelligence – Overview of and topical guide to human intelligence
Outline of knowledge – Overview of and topical guide to knowledge
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