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Who is the knower and what is knowing? - Coggle Diagram
Who is the knower and what is knowing?
Personal knowledge
Innate:
Something we are born with.
A prior:
Purely by reason.
Experiential:
Based on experience.
Theorem:
A principle or statement that can be demonstrated or proved using logic, but is not self-evident. For example Pisagor theorem.
Universal grammar:
It suggests that grammar is hard-wired into our brains.
A posteriori:
It's opposite of a prior, It's knowledge based on experience.
Personal ignorance:
No one can know everythind and being aware of our ignorance gives us a advantage over those who are ignorant over their ignorance.
Belief:
Confindence that something exist is true:
Expert:
a person with specialised knowledge in a particular subject.
Ignorance:
lack of knowledge.
Illusion of explanatory depth:
the illusion that you understand something in detail when you do not.
The knower as a member of communities
Tribalism:
The behaviours and attitudes that arise out of loyalty to a social group.
Knowledge communities:
Proof:
conclusive evidence
Retribution:
punishment inflicted in response to an action.
outrage:
intense anger and shock.
Knowing yourself
Objectivity:
Looking at the world in a detached way that focuses on facts, largely independent of a personal perspective, and that expects to be corroborated by a knowledge community.
Subjectivity:
looking at the world from a personal point of view, under the influence of feelings and emotions.
Interpretation:
an explanation of the meaning of something.
Shared knowledge:
All knowledge that can be communicated between people and it's something we can rely on. Because almost everything we own and use is the product of the collective knowledge of many people.