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knowledge

Awareness of facts, familiarity with individuals and situations, or practical skill; encompasses descriptive, procedural, and acquaintance knowledge, typically characterized as justified true belief distinct from opinion or guesswork

Entityphilosophical conceptQ9081

Also known as knowing · awareness

Instance of: philosophical concept
Subclass of: cognitive process

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Knowledge is an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill. Descriptive knowledge, also called propositional knowledge, is often characterized as true belief that is distinct from opinion or guesswork by virtue of justification. While there is wide agreement among philosophers that propositional knowledge is a form of true belief, many controversies focus on justification. This includes questions like how to understand justification, whether it is needed at all, and whether something else besides it is needed. These controversies intensified in the latter half of the 20th century due to a series of thought experiments called Gettier cases that provoked alternative definitions.

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Opposite of: ignorance
Different from: Wissen criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Wissen
Knowledge criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: knowledge
Kila criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Kila
Wikimedia outline: outline of knowledge
Studied by: epistemology
theory of knowledge
sociology of knowledge
philosophy
Used by: knowledge management
Partially coincident with: understanding
experience
Has characteristic: knowledge environment
limits of knowledge
knowledge type
Said to be the same as: certainty
Contributing factor of: understanding
competence
Cause: learning including: study, hands-on learning
qualia
revelation nature of statement: disputed
Union of: list of values as qualifiers list item: explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge
list of values as qualifiers list item: descriptive knowledge, procedural knowledge
Permanent duplicated item: Q117833695

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