13 types of knowledge Flashcards
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Posteriori knowledge
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- Knowledge that comes after experience
- Applied to information which is developed with direct observation
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Priori knowledge
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- Deduced from first principals, assumptions that come before arguments
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Dispersed knowledge
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- Has no reliable source of truth
- Information about matter is divided amongst sources
- folk tales, mythology
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Domain Knowledge
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- Expertise in a particular area
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Empirical knowledge
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- Attained from quantitative or qualitative observation or experiments
- derived form experience
- Used to verify truth or prove the falsity of an argument
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Encoded knowledge
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- Conveyed by symbols and signs (Books, documents, manuals)
- Helpful to produce a predicable pattern of output an behaviour in an orgainzation
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Explicit Knowledge
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- Expressive knowledge
-Easily verbalized - Put into natural language
- Documents, encyclopedia, how to videos
-Easy to access or transmit
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Known unknowns
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- Knowledge that you know but don’t know yet
- Opportunity to research and enhance
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Meta-knowledge
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- Knowledge about knowledge
- Used to define models which can help define knowledge
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Procedural Knowledge
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- Being aware of how to do something
- Difficult to covey
- Obtained by doing
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Propositional knowledge
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- Descriptive, declarative or constative knowledge
- Representative in natural or formal language such as mathematics or or propositional knowledge
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Situational knowledge
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- Comes from a viewpoint, reflects a context
- Can be used to give an explanation of the difficulty of analyzing history or culture
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Tactic knowledge
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- Difficult to articulate or explain such as playing an instrument or solving a puzzle
- Ex, emotional intelligence
- Intuition, strategy, problem-solving, decision making
- Some people are naturally good
