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What is knowledge?
#1
What is knowledge?
What is the true nature of knowledge, our reading or our understanding?
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#2
RE: What is knowledge?
(June 21, 2014 at 12:16 pm)Muslim Atheism Wrote: What is the true nature of knowledge, our reading or our understanding?

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini.../knowledge

There you go.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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#3
RE: What is knowledge?
Thank you . . it said:

Quote:Facts, information, and skills
acquired
through experience or education;
the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject:

so. . knowledge is "acquired through something"
but it depends on our "understanding"

What is "understanding" ?
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#4
RE: What is knowledge?
Knowledge is to what goes on in our minds
as true circles are to what you find in nature.
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#5
RE: What is knowledge?
I remember from one video says "knowledge" already exists in space . . the video point out the facts how animals acquired knowledge. That makes me wonder what is the true nature of knowledge and how people can acquire them.
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#6
RE: What is knowledge?
Knowledge: knowing that members of ISIS are murderous bastards all too ready to kill for their imagined god.
Wisdom: Not saying that to a member of ISIS when they are in front of you with their AK47.

Not what you asked but made me chuckle.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.




 








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#7
RE: What is knowledge?
Other people have different understanding, and that proves the point that knowledge is not from what they read, but it is about "their understanding", which based on their emotions, experiences, prejudices etc.
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#8
RE: What is knowledge?
(June 21, 2014 at 12:38 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Knowledge: knowing that members of ISIS are murderous bastards all too ready to kill for their imagined god.
Wisdom: Not saying that to a member of ISIS when they are in front of you with their AK47.

Not what you asked but made me chuckle.


The greater wisdom might have been to leave Saddam's in power so he would kill any nascent ISIS member for you while still leave you the opportunity to effect humanity by condemning his brutality.
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#9
RE: What is knowledge?
(June 21, 2014 at 12:24 pm)Muslim Atheism Wrote: Thank you . . it said:

Quote:Facts, information, and skills
acquired
through experience or education;
the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject:

so. . knowledge is "acquired through something"
but it depends on our "understanding"

What is "understanding" ?

As used here, practical "understanding" indicates you already have the ability to apply what you know to achieve desired ends. If you have theoretical "understanding", that means you have the capacity to communicate what you know in such a way as to share it with others.
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#10
RE: What is knowledge?
(June 21, 2014 at 1:19 pm)whateverist Wrote: you already have the ability . . . you have the capacity

Maybe the Buddhist are focusing on the "ability" and the "capacity" to interpret knowledge correctly, ie. their "emotional state of mind". So it doesn't matter much what book people read, as long they can interpret it correctly.
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