Knowledge

knowledge it is a set of data on facts, truths or of information gained through the experience or the learning (a posteriori), or through introspection (a priori). The knowledge is an appreciation of the possession of multiple interrelated data that in case single they have minor qualitative value.

Many definitions of knowledge exist, employees of the perspective that is taken when defining it.

In Sciences of the Information, one gets used to defining continuous a progressively complex one, integrated by data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

Thus, it is defined to knowledge like the set organized of data e information destined to solve a certain one problem.

science it obtains knowledge following a method denominated scientific method or experimental method, and to the knowledge thus obtained is denominated it scientific knowledge.

Nevertheless, the concept of knowledge it is more general than the one of scientific knowledge. It is so religious beliefs they constitute a special type of knowledge, nonpasibles of being verified by science. Therefore religious beliefs they do not constitute scientific knowledge, although yes they are source of knowledge.

In general, so that one belief constitute scientific knowledge it is not enough whereupon she is true, tests must exist that support it. That is to say, it must be able to demonstrate its probability using scientific method, also known like experimental method.

Tipología of the knowledge

We can establish several classes of conocimiento(unas more generals and deeper others):

  • knowledge a priori he is independent of any experience, an only deniable universal truth with a contradiction.
  • knowledge a posteriori it derives from the experience of the senses. It can be rejected with no need of a contradiction.
  • The knowledge can be codified if it is possible to be stored or to be specified formally in such a way that any information is not lost. By contrast the knowledge not codified he is that one that cannot be codified since it is difficult to express or to specify.
  • The knowledge can be public if it is easy to share, and it consists of a created knowledgespread by the society. However, if it is personnel he has been constructed by the own individual; it is the base of the public knowledge.
  • When the culture is crossed the space locality and the ecological thing, we spoke of knowledge the premises, that is to say, a knowledge developed around a defined geographic area. However, the knowledge global he is the one that has formed by means of networks or communities, pertaining to different geographic places.
  • The knowledge can be oriented if it makes reference to the causal relations between concepts, and it will be axiomatic when one talks about to explanations of final or a priori causes of events.
  • The knowledge is explicit if it can be transmitted from an individual to another one by means of some formal mass media. If the knowledge is difficult to communicate or to formalize, we spoke of knowledge implicit Tacitus or, normally rooted in personal experiences or mental models.
  • The knowledge is empiricist if he has been assumed collectively through certain results at which he has not arrived himself applying no formal method. If on the contrary a methodology has been followed we are before knowledge scientist. As in this last case laws exist and principles that guarantee it (those that has allowed us to arrive at him) we will be able to conclude that this knowledge always is certain.
  • The knowledge will be cultural when in an organization terms are used, nomenclatures and procedures that have been decided internally. When these elements have a bibliographical base we will speak of knowledge of dictionary.


Finally, considering an organization, company, group, or system, the knowledge can exist in a scope individual or in a scope group. The knowledge is the act to learn and on managing the information.

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