Refers to awareness or perception of reality acquired through in-
sight, learning, or investigation.
2.knowledge:
within a discipline, it is what we collectively see as a reasonably
accurate understanding of the world as envisioned by that
DISCIPLINE
3.knowledge: --
tentative and can be expanded/refined over time.
4.Epistemology:
Study of knowledge
5.Questions we ask for epistemology (study of knowledge):
what do we know? what is the extent of our knowledge?
how do we decide whether we
,know? what are the criteria for
knowledge?
6.ways we know--:
we need to know how we know- different kinds of knowledge (hunch-
intuitive knowledge, science- empiric knowledge, etc)
7.Empirics:
Scientific knowledge coming from observation, testing, and replication.
(ex- helps is take accurate BP)
8.Personal knowledge:
Knowledge gained through thought alone (association/re- flection, etc)
9.Esthetic knowledge:
Harmony, beauty, expression. Incorporates art, creativity, and values
(look at one piece of art, some think ugly, some think beautiful)
10.Intuitive knowledge:
Feeling and hunches not guessing, but relies on uncon- scious pattern
recognition and experience.(gained over time and experience)
, 11.Moral and Ethical knowledge:
What is right versus wrong. Values, social and cultural norms.
(diff societies have different values and ethics, some other countries
may even have different ethical issues than US)
12.Somatic knowledge:
Knowing the body in relation to physical movement. Bal- ance to
perform task.
ex- knowing that is we move from one position to another we may fall
13.Theory:
Set of interrelated concepts, statements, propositions, and definitions,
which have been derived from philosophical beliefs of scientific data
and from which questions and hypotheses can be deduced, tested, and
verified
14.Theory:
attempt to account for or characterize some phenomenon.
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