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Knowledge: Meaning of Knowledge and Types of Knowledge

Introduction: All our knowledge is founded on, and ultimately derived from experience. The two sources of all on ideas are sensation, through which the mind is furnished with sensible qualities and reflection,or internal sense, which supplies the mind with Ideas of its own operations ,such as perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing. Meaning of knowledge: Every man…

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Consider two types of knowledge. The first type is not exactly “knowledge”; its ambiguous character prevents us from associating it with the strict definitions of knowledge. It is a way of doing things that we cannot really express in clear and direct language—it is sometimes called apophatic—but that we do nevertheless, and do well. The second type is more like what we call “knowledge”; it is what you acquire in school, can get grades for, can codify, what is explainable, academizable, rationalizable, formalizable, theoretizable, codifiable, Sovietizable, bureaucratizable, Harvardifiable, provable, etc. The error of naive rationalism leads to overestimating the role and necessity of the second type, academic knowledge, in human affairs—and degrading the uncodifiable, more complex, intuitive, or experience-based type.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile