Knowledge

Locke's epistemology, or his means of supporting justified belief as opposed to conjecture, is very much based on the distinctions he makes as to what most defines elements of reality. As will be seen, all the components of Locke's thinking are inextricably related to one another, in that ideas and...

Race has always been considered one of the heatedly debated questions. Biases and prejudices, so frequently occurred in everyday life, widely affect the racial minorities. Mass media along with multiple researches conducted raise tension between the people by promoting an idea of whites` superiority. As a result, blacks are more...

Description Earl (2001) states that, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly becoming important to managers, and it has been brought home through conferences and publications. Most companies have embraced effective handling of knowledge, and it is one of the significant factors that help counter competition among them. It should be noted...

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is introduced in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. God explicitly tells Adam and Eve not to eat from this tree, as Genesis 2:16-17 states, “The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat...

When considering the natural sciences, it is evident that the interaction of critical and creative thinking are important for generating knowledge, whilst in the arts it is less necessary for increasing understanding. The natural sciences involves the generation of knowledge through a combination of creative invention and the ability to...

Describing the philosophical foundations of the consumer of research and the trends and developments of social and behavioral science investigation concerns how empiricism relates to quantitative research methodology framed verifiable experience and/or observation rather use of pure logic or theory. The ideology of quantitative research looks to real world data...

Although there are five different definitions of the word knowledge, the first listing in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is sufficient for this discussion. The word is defined as follows, “Knowledge is defined as (1): the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association. With use of...

The most foundational discipline in all of philosophy is epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that focuses on the study of knowledge. Knowledge can be accessed through different means, including memory, learning and language. Questions in epistemology include ‘What are the different types of knowledge?’, ‘Is their more to...

Introduction In modern organizations, knowledge management represents an opportunity to explore the different dimensions of expanded productivity through the utilization of knowledge in different forms. It is important for organizations to develop knowledge management strategies in order to accomplish a variety of different objectives and to recognize the importance of...

In each of the pieces of literature, “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, “Much Madness is divinest Sense” by Emily Dickinson, and “The Birthmark” by Nathanial Hawthorne, one of the most profound and somewhat subtle implied claims of knowledge and individual power is that knowledge and power are the natural...

British journalist Miles Kington is credited with coining the phrase, “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. This quote has been peppered lightly throughout our modern culture, but it has a much deeper meaning than just being the cool new slogan...

Knowledge management tools are tools that support the performance of applications, activities or even actions. This might include knowledge generation, knowledge codification which enables its processing so as to improve the decision making mechanism of the specific institution. It’s not mandatory for all processes to be computer based but most...

Knowledge creation can be termed as updating knowledge based on progressive experiences in a distinct discipline and then making use of the fresh knowledge together with the already existing knowledge in order to formulate improved knowledge for sharing. Organizations are increasingly embracing this practice so as to upgrade their managerial...

Pretty much of what we know around us, we cannot prove that it exists. For instance, a table as we know it is just but a mentality we have in our mind of how a table looks. We tend to associate anything we meet with our experience. There is, therefore,...

The question seeks to provide an answer that discusses how a single element is greater in validity more than the other or more than others. In this case, it is important to understand how essential is a “knower’s perspective” as compared to everyone else’s? Based on the topic argument, it...