Essay On Ways Of Knowing

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Having learnt about a number of areas of knowledge and ways of knowing in the theory of knowledge course, I can be quite certain that no area of knowledge uses just one way of knowing. Rather, the ways of knowing have an interactive nature in the methodology of an area of knowledge. Some possibilities are that each way of knowing is used for a purpose and two or more ways of knowing are sequentially connected or used together for one purpose. These possibilities will be indirectly explored through focusing on the following knowledge issues: how ways of knowing interact in an area of knowledge, whether there are ways of knowing specific to an area of knowledge, whether gaining knowledge is the outcome of processes limited to just the ways of…show more content…
Memory provides materials to adapt or modify in terms of various aspects, all of which happen through language. Again, like reasoning, imagination can happen pictorially without language depending on individual ability but it is in the cognition of the mind to rely on the messages sent through sensory organs. Also, if a person knows about a certain object by being told of it but has not directly seen it, it will be difficult to visually imagine it as part of any context. However, if the person has seen an object similar to the one being told, that visual would be used in the imagination process. Hence, imagination is seen as adapting or modifying materials of past knowledge into that of a new standard. One implication seen is that memory and language facilitate the use of certain other ways of knowing, in their own ways. However, language is subject to limitation especially when using different languages, some of which are more developed than others and may be more effective. Also when a work is translated from one language to another, there tends to be something lost in translation like the play Antigone by Sophocles, part of my English A course for works in translation, having different versions in English while the play was originally written in
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