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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Knowledge


-defined as expertise and skills acquired by a person through experience and education.

Aquisition involves complex cognitive processes.



Four Matter of Facts

1. That something exist.

2. That something can be known.

3. That is something which matter.

4. That something including the foregoing statements.



Four Branches of Philosophy

1. Ontology-theory of being


2. Epistimology-nature of knowledge.


3. Axiology-study of goodness /value :-)


4. Logic-theory of inferences.

Sources of Knowledge


1. Custom and Tradition


2. Sense Perception


3. Intuition

Perception

-process of attaining awareness/understanding sensory information.

"What one perceives is a result of interplays between past experiences;including one's culture and the interpretation of the perceive."

Four Key Words

Perception-Experience-Knowledge-Science



Edmund Husserl

-Bracketing this means,forgetting for the time being, all that has learned. In order to take unprejudiced look at what is presented.



Thought

-acts of thinking

-that which one thinks

-opinions and reflections



Concept

-habits of expectation

-representation of object

-idea/mental image

Perceptions

-views

-reflections

-impression



Titchener-used to report what came into his head when he was using a certain idea "image theory".

Hume- used by introspecting to discover what the self looked like

-"bundless perception"

Ryle- used asked the questioned about the concept.

Heraclitus-he recognized in perception are more less orbitrarily carved out of the continous stuff.


-coleiii :))

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