Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Different types of Knowledge


Knowledge can be defined as the the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association, acquaintance with or understanding of a science, art, or technique. There are different types of knowledge, one can be expressed in words and symbols. For example, mathematics and musics scores need to be expressed with words and symbols because both topics require graphic expression to be understand. The other type of knowledge does not need words or symbols to be expressed, this is called intrinsic knowledge. An example that represents intrinsic knowledge is a child that is learning to ride a bicycle needs to learn how to maintain balance by himself. Another example that portrays intrinsic knowledge can be represented by two chefs cooking with the same recipe but the dishes come up differently because of intuition. 
As an illustration of knowledge that needs symbols or words to be expressed it can be said that mathematics qualifies to this statement because it needs to be learn through words and symbols because it has been pr-established that way. For example the Pythagorean theorem: that states In any right triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares whose sides are the two legs.

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