Monday, September 26, 2016

Personal VS Shared knowledge

Personal and shared knowledge can be described as the knowledge "I know" and what "we know".

Some shared knowledge examples would mean things we (as students in Raha) have learned throughout these years, such as what has happened in some parts of history and we might also know some basic science. We know that WW2 started in 1914 and included The Allies and The Central powers, we also know that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, this was all taught to us and we all (maybe) believe this is true or at least until proven wrong.

One big example of shared knowledge which is very influencing around the world (according to http://theoryofknowledgestudent.com) is Religion, like Catholicism which over 1.2 billion people follow worldwide.

However personal knowledge differentiates to this as you are basically describing what distinctive knowledge you know that many others could or just do not know, or just things that you have witnessed yourself therefore being able to prove these things. One of many examples that one can list down would be "I know how to swim".

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