Unit 1: Knowledge and the Knower

What is our definition of knowledge?

• facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education

• facts, information, and skills acquired through experience

• facts, information, and skills acquired through education

• facts, information, and skills acquired to fake news and other media

Which of the following is NOT an area of knowledge?

• Mathematics

• Arts

• Religion

• History

• Human Sciences

What are knowledge questions?

• Questions about the people who invented knowledge.

• Questions about specific content details.

• Questions about how to falsify knowledge and produce inaccurate knowledge.

• Questions about how knowledge is produced, acquired, shared and used.

Knowledge is all of the following EXCEPT

• Certain

• Based on primary experience

• May be based on bias

• Generally accepted

A belief is the following EXCEPT

• Based on opinion

• Can be based on a hope or aspiration

• May be based on some facts

• Certain

Human souls are immortal.

• knowledge

• belief

2 + 2 = 4

• knowledge

• belief

Which of these is NOT a theory of truth?

• Rasputence

• Pragmatism

• Correspondence

• Coherence

We can hold something to be true if - (select three that apply)

• corresponds to the facts

• it is based on second-hand information

• works in practice

• is part of a coherent system

Intuition can best be described as the following EXCEPT -

• gut feeling

• knowing from instinct rather than reason

• being based on personal opinion or emotions

• being based on facts and reason