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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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Chris Frith on Knowledge - Dictionary of Arguments
I 39 False Knowledge/Frith: e.g. epilepsy: can lead to false knowledge. I 40 Aura: an aura lets a person hear voices and sounds, also e.g. experiences from the past. I 41 This can lead to false knowledge. >Illusion, >Delusion. I 47 Schizophrenia/Frith: typical characteristic of schizophrenia: e.g. the people firmly believe they had had experiences, which they did not have however. I 49 Illusion/schizophrenia/Frith: people hear voices that give them commands and comment on actions. The brain can create a false mental world. It is not about the physical world. Thesis: even the completely normally functioning brain can tell us something wrong. I 51 Brain/world/reality/perception/Frith: thesis: even if our brain works normally, we have no direct access to the world. >World/Thinking, >Reality, >Brain, >Brain states, >Brain/Frith._____________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. |
Frith I Chris Frith Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, Hoboken/NJ 2007 German Edition: Wie unser Gehirn die Welt erschafft Heidelberg 2013 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19