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    Knowledge is familiarity or understanding of facts, skills, or objects that can be acquired through various means including perception, reason, memory, testimony, scientific inquiry, education, and practice. The study of knowledge is called epistemology. Knowledge can refer to theoretical or practical understanding and can be implicit or explicit, formal or informal, systematic or particular. In epistemology, philosophers debate the definition of knowledge, such as Plato's view of knowledge as justified true belief.

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    Knowledge is familiarity or understanding of facts, skills, or objects that can be acquired through various means including perception, reason, memory, testimony, scientific inquiry, education, and practice. The study of knowledge is called epistemology. Knowledge can refer to theoretical or practical understanding and can be implicit or explicit, formal or informal, systematic or particular. In epistemology, philosophers debate the definition of knowledge, such as Plato's view of knowledge as justified true belief.

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    Knowledge

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    For other uses, see Knowledge (disambiguation).
    Part of a series on
    Epistemology
    • Category
    • Index
    • Outline

    Core concepts

    • Belief
    • Justification
    • Knowledge
    • Truth

    Distinctions

    • A priori vs. A posteriori


    • Analytic vs. synthetic

    Schools of thought

    • Empiricism
    • Naturalism
    • Pragmatism
    • Rationalism
    • Relativism
    • Skepticism

    Topics and views

    • Certainty
    • Coherentism
    • Contextualism
    • Dogmatism
    • Experience
    • Fallibilism
    • Foundationalism
    • Induction
    • Infallibilism
    • Infinitism
    • Perspectivism
    • Rationality
    • Reason
    • Solipsism

    Specialized domains of inquiry

    • Applied epistemology
    • Evolutionary epistemology
    • Feminist epistemology
    • Formal epistemology
    • Metaepistemology
    • Social epistemology

    Notable epistemologists

    • René Descartes
    • Sextus Empiricus
    • Edmund Gettier
    • David Hume
    • Immanuel Kant
    • W. V. O. Quine
    • more...

    Related fields

    • Epistemic logic
    • Philosophy of mind
    • Philosophy of perception
    • Philosophy of science
    • Probability

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    Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as


    facts (descriptive knowledge), skills (procedural knowledge), or objects (acquaintance
    knowledge). By most accounts, knowledge can be acquired in many different ways and from
    many sources, including but not limited to perception, reason, memory, testimony, scientific
    inquiry, education, and practice. The philosophical study of knowledge is called
    epistemology.

    The term "knowledge" can refer to a theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. It can
    be implicit (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical
    understanding of a subject); formal or informal; systematic or particular.[1] The philosopher
    Plato argued that there was a distinction between knowledge and true belief in the Theaetetus,
    leading many to attribute to him a definition of knowledge as "justified true belief".[2][3] The
    difficulties with this definition raised by

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