What+constitutes+knowledge

Knowledge: (i) Expertise and skills through experience (ii) Education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject (iii) Facts and information (iv) Awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.
 * What constitutes knowledge? What justifies knowledge as truth? **

Knowledge can be gained through understanding; to understand is a [|psychological] [|process] related to an abstract or physical object, e.g. A [|person], situation, or [|message] whereby one is able to think about it and use [|concepts] to deal effectively with that object. __ The difference between knowledge and beliefs: __ A [|belief] is an internal [|thought] or [|memory], which exists in one's [|mind]. Most people accept that for a belief to be knowledge it must be, at least, [|true] and [|justified]. __ Justified true belief __ : For someone to have knowledge of something, it must be true, it must be believed to be true, and the belief must be justified. Scientific method refers to a body of [|techniques] for investigation, gaining new [|knowledge], or correcting previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of [|inquiry] has to be based on gathering [|observable], [|empirical] and [|measurable] [|evidence] subject to specific principles of [|reasoning]. A scientific method consists of the collection of [|data] through [|observation] and [|experimentation], and the formulation and testing of [|hypotheses]. Isaac Newton wrote: "If I have seen further... it is by standing on the shoulder of giants". Meaning "One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past"; a contemporary interpretation. "//Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.//" ** Bibliography ** [] [] [] [] []