Sources+of+Knowledge



How do you acquire knowledge?

First of all, the very first thing we ever learned or gained when we were younger was **knowledge**. Well, knowledge itself is around us. Everywhere we look, there must be some knowledge behind it. To being with, these are the different sources of knowing: senses, ethics, memory, empirical, authority, culture, familiarity, instinct, logic, empathy, environmental influences, media advertising, history, etc. Acquiring knowledge has been going on for centuries, like for example at the times of Adam and Eve. From there we learnt from good and bad. And that itself is, already knowledge.

From my perspective there are three main ways or sources of knowing that we acquire. One is from **experience**. All of us have done this action as we grow up. Experiencing something would then be kept in our memory. For example, if we were to pour hot boiling water into a cup too fast, it would splash onto us and we’ll get hurt. From then on we can learn from our mistakes or experiences and would rather not repeat it again. Second, another way of knowing is by **sensing,** because all of us do this is our everyday life. This helps us to identify things and objects and would later be familiar to us. Thirdly, you can obtain knowledge through **educational understanding**, such as reading books, asking teachers, going to school and library and many more. We have been doing so since kindergarten, to elementary, to middle school, to high school, to college and finally university. That is why we have different stages of learning, because one can only learn so much at a time. These are the main three sources of knowledge I think we have acquired so far. - These are just some of my symbols for the assignment. The others are in drawings. -->

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- Acquaintance - Instinct || - Observation, senses - First meet, not a complex way of knowing - Natural (it happens without emotion or reason) || - Faith -Introspection || - It is something you feel - You just feel something, because it IS an emotion - What you think you feel || - Conscience || - Its what we strongly feel for with emotion and reason. - What you feel is right, and what you think is right || Excellent page. Well done. Good commentary, clear ideas with well thought out answers. However, I am not sure if "the reason we are here is reason" is a play on word?
 * Perception || - Empirical
 * Emotion || - Empathy
 * Both (Perception and Emotion) || - Memory || - You feel emotions with them, but first you perceive it. ||
 * Reason || Logical || – We have to think about it ||
 * Both (Reason and Emotion) || - Ethics or
 * Language || - Authority || - People just saying things ||