Wednesday, January 28, 2015

KNOWLEDGE

Theory of Knowledge evolves into eight different ways of knowing, which help describe knowledge and situations around us based on everyday basis. This includes emotion, faith, imagination, intuition, language, memory, reason and sense perception. 

Each of the previous ways of knowing help discuss a certain issue or the knowledge gained behind it. Knowledge is considered to be derived from information, however it is known to be more meaningful and significant.

For example, lets say that a person hurt himself as a result of fooling around with tv cables. After a while, when that same person has something to fix with these cables, memory plays its role in knowing what might happen to him, this is due to the fact that the brain starts to familiarize the situation he is in based on previous memories stored.

All other ways of knowing play their parts just as much as memory plays its own. Emotion's role can be as simple as knowing that animal cruelty is not humane, that is because a human feels sympathy towards the animal that is getting abused. 

Faith can be related to religion, as you know things are set to be that certain way, and a person would not question them because this is what he believes in and feels is right. This can be related to intuition, which is knowing things based on feelings you get. For example, having a gut feeling that walking that narrow road at night would be a bad idea, so the next day you find out that a murder took place 10 minutes after you decided to take another way home. 

These ways of knowing are all related, intertwined and dependent on each other. They make up the building blocks of theory of knowledge as they help explain how life around us, and give chance to all possible answers and arguments.

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