knowledge

     

Knowlege is defined (Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as "justified true belief". There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories.

Trivia about knowledge

  • In 1597 in his "Religious Meditations", Francis Bacon wrote that this "is power"
  • Of the Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge, or the Tree of Righteousness, the 1 forbidden to Adam
  • Epistemology
  • Epistemophobia would be bad news for a Jeopardy! contestant, as it's fear of this