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Methods of Acquiring Knowledge by Man

The document discusses the different methods of acquiring knowledge in three main sections. It outlines five sources of knowledge: knowledge from sensory experience, reasoning, authoritative figures, revelation, and intuition. It then examines three facets of knowledge: participative knowledge gained from social activities, content knowledge taught in educational institutions, and relational knowledge connecting different forms of learning. Finally, it lists several forms knowledge can take, such as sensory, experiential, demonstrative, logical, intuitive, and digital knowledge.

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Methods of Acquiring Knowledge by Man

The document discusses the different methods of acquiring knowledge in three main sections. It outlines five sources of knowledge: knowledge from sensory experience, reasoning, authoritative figures, revelation, and intuition. It then examines three facets of knowledge: participative knowledge gained from social activities, content knowledge taught in educational institutions, and relational knowledge connecting different forms of learning. Finally, it lists several forms knowledge can take, such as sensory, experiential, demonstrative, logical, intuitive, and digital knowledge.

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Methods of acquiring

Knowledge by man
A. M. Dheepthika
Department of mathematics
Introduction
● One of the salient features that differentiate man from
animals is the gift of knowledge.
● Learning get combined and become knowledge which
has been categorized under different heads.
Methods

● 1. SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE
● 2. FACETS OF KNOWLEDGE
● 3. FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE
Sources of
knowledge
● The following are the source of knowledge

● 1. Knowledge gained from sensory experience.


● 2. Knowledge derived from reasoning
● 3. Authoritative knowledge
● 4. Revealed knowledge
● 5. Intuitive knowledge
Knowledge gained
from sensory
experience

● The experience gained by man through his five


senses are the source of this kind of knowledge.
Knowledge gained
from reasoning

● Man has the ability not only believing what he sees are
true but also the ability to think and visualize what he
could not directly see.
Authoritative
knowledge
● Human knowledge gets endorsed only through the
authorities who propounded it.
● Eg. Buddha, Edison, etc..
Revealed knowledge
● Sages and saints were blessed with divine revelation
and because of their piety selfless and moral authority,
people accept them as authoritative massage.
Intuitive knowledge
● The ability to understand something instinctively without
the need for conscious reasoning.
Facets OF knowledge
● 1.participative knowledge
● 2. Content knowledge
● 3. Relational knowledge
Participative
knowledge
● Knowledge about social environment is acquired
through participants in social activities.
Content knowledge
● It refer to what is taught in educational institutions as
outline by curriculum, syllabus, text book, etc..
Relational knowledge
● Knowledge and learning are related.
Form of knowledge
Sensory knowledge- knowledge acquired through
sense.
● Experiential knowledge- sense perception ate stored in
mind as image and applied thinking whenever need
.arises.
● Demonstrative knowledge- knowledge acquired from
things that could not be explained through direct
relations but may be inferred through indirect relation.
● Logical knowledge- when knowledge is acquired
through the use of inductive and deductive
● Intuitive knowledge- when one get knowledge
transcending conscious experience and reasoning.
● Digital knowledge- text and documents stored in the
digital form and is accessible to computers
Conclusion
Depending upon many methods the methods of
acquiring knowledge by man
Thank you

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