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KNOWLEDGE QUESTION: Can all knowledge be expressed in words or symbols? -…

- - - - CLAIM: not all knowledge can be expressed in words, especially because not everyone understands the cultural significance of words
        
        EXAMPLE: Things Fall Apart discussions, conflict of publishing language OR as reader understanding Igbo words included
        
        REASONING: implications of words not explicitly stated, thus outsiders of culture will not receive all of the knowledge being expressed
        
        REASONING: Some words cannot be exactly translated. Translations lack historical/ cultural background needed to fully know
    - - CLAIM: Words and symbols alone cannot always fully convey knowledge, body language is often necessary to supplement understanding.
        
        EXAMPLE: Reading Othello, watching without sound, watching with sound
        
        REASONING: nuanced insight is provided through body language that is not explicitly explained, and cannot be fully through words because facial expressions and body movements add a depth of meaning like sarcasm, etc. due to our ability to empathize
        
        REASONING: could also be argued that the full knowledge and effect of the play can only be conveyed through the combination of words and body language, since they both add their own type of knowledge.
  - - - CLAIM: Some knowledge can be fully expressed through words and symbols
        
        EXAMPLE: learning integrals
        
        REASONING: All the proofs and work using integrals are done in symbols, so symbols are how that knowledge is communicated
        
        Symbols are assigned/explained meaning through words
        
        REASONING: No particular experience attached with the symbols therefore the extent of the knowledge lie within those symbols and their explanations
    - - CLAIM: Words and symbols can show information and description but never the full extent of an experience
        
        EXAMPLE: Math IA, graph sounds of horn to cancel out waves
        
        REASONING: Shows sounds and that they should cancel, but actually hearing it provides a whole new depth
        
        REASONING: the words and symbols provided visual knowledge, while actually listening introduces a whole new sense, providing means for gaining entirely new knowledge
        
        Can't know a sound by seeing it