Knowledge (preliminary)

This section is devoted to collect the preliminary definitios one can hold about the knowledge concept, as a first step in a further inquire of the core concepts of philosophy in the information age. The question of 'what is knowledge? is posed to participants in the seminar "A Journey through philosophy" in a very early stage. Thereafter, participants are invited to write down here their understandings of the term trying to group them in the definitions provided by other participants.

Please, before providing your definition take a careful look to the previous ones and ammend them if you consider necessary, leaving a note in the discussion tab (top, left). Indeed the discussion page can be very productive in a free confrontation of the different understandings as a dialectical approach to a better common understanding.

Preliminary definitions of the concept

Knowledge can be understood as the result of information gathering and the action to preserve it. But also, it can be when you decide to use the information you have heard, seen or learned and transform it into something else.

• Supporters of this understanding: Vanessa Castro

Knowledge is he sum of Information and Experiences. I can know certain stuff, because I observed or felt it – I know for an example that I shouldn’t touch red glowing Metal because, well, its hot, either through the knowledge of Thermodynamics or through the experience that the radiating heat or rather the sensation of it, will become painful at some point.

• Supporters of this understanding: Alexander Prugger