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Knowledge: Knowledge is the awareness or understanding of something. It can be acquired through experience, or education. Knowledge can be factual, procedural, or conceptual. See also Propositional knowledge, Knowledge how._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Bigelow on Knowledge - Dictionary of Arguments
I 295 Knowledge/Science/Bigelow/Pargetter: Knowledge acquisition often seems to have more to do with description than with explanation. >Learning, >Learning theory, >Language acquisition, >Explanation, >Descriptions. Explanation/Description/Bigelow/Pargetter: are not easily separable. Rather, we distinguish between different types of explanation: how-explanation and why-explanation. >Knowledge how, >Why-questions, >Reason, >Reason/cause._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Big I J. Bigelow, R. Pargetter Science and Necessity Cambridge 1990 |