1. What is knowledge?
2. What is the classification of knowledge?
3. What are the difference among Procedural Knowledge, Propositional Knowledge and Acquaintance Knowledge?
4. Can we call Procedural Knowledge as Knowledge by Acquaintance and Propositional Knowledge as Knowledge by Description?
5. Among the 3 types of knowledge (Procedural Knowledge, Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description) which one fits with the 'Priori' knowledge and which classification fits with the 'Posteriori' knowledge?
- Some questions like, e.g., 'What does it mean to know something?', 'What is the real meaning of knowing?', 'What is the nature and the existence of knowledge?', 'Where does knowledge come from?', 'How can human being be concerned with the ontology of knowledge?', 'How can we conceptualise knowledge and how can we specifically conceptualise knowledge (in different domains)?' are some heuristic questions that focus on epistemology and theories of knowledge. I strongly suggest you to know what you are going to know, and to know what the real meaning of knowing is. Certainly, you must focus on dependencies between knowledge and semantics in your specific domain of research.
- (i) Analysing the quadruple and (ii) recognising the interrelationships between any two of them are conducive to epistemologies and theories of knowing.
- From my point of view, the most appropriate classification of knowledge is the Revised of Bloom's Taxonomy. According to that, we have four main classes of knowledge; (1) Factual Knowledge (e.g., Knowledge of terminologies), (2) Procedural Knowledge (e.g., Knowledge of Methodologies, Algorithms and Ways), (3) Conceptual Knowledge (e.g., Knowledge of Theories, Specifications), and (4) Meta-Cognitive Knowledge (e.g., Knowledge of Contexts, Conditional Knowledge). By the way I believe that all these classes are integrated (i.e., are not separated and not discrete) and there is no significant border among them.
Joachim, Farshad Badie,·Harshvardhan Sing, thankyou all for considering your invaluable time in answering my questions. After studying for a day, I am now in a bit confusion about the Propositional Knowledge as it is not generally recognized as a knowledge by description. If there is any clear difference between these two types of knowledge then would you mind clarifying it to me?
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