Difference Between Knowledge And Shared Knowledge

New scientific discoveries not only enhanced man’s comfort in life but also his appreciation of human potential and reason. It was becoming increasingly evident that it was to man’s benefit to reason and understand. With this realization came the need to determine the proper place of human reasoning in man’s life. The philosophies of the early post-Reformation period dealt with this issue—how to relate and balance faith and reason. Gone was the blind, unquestioning faith of the medieval period. Men were now free to doubt and deny. Those who believed in Christ and His claims found themselves increasingly shifting to a defensive stance and trying to accommodate human reason.

The natural sciences and the arts are two areas of knowledge that play a prominent role in producing knowledge. Shared knowledge refers to procedural (knowing how) or propositional knowledge (knowing that) which is agreed upon and accepted by groups of people; it evolves over time as methods of justification change. For example, the Areas of Knowledge are considered shared knowledge because many people contribute to them. Personal knowledge differs between individuals; it includes personal skills, acquaintances and procedural knowledge that have been acquired through experience. It is much harder to communicate personal knowledge because it is based on personal experiences that differ between individuals (Knowledge in ToK). Although they can

Throughout history, we can see that humans always try to acquire new knowledge. We can see this pattern because knowledge helps us, human, to have a better understanding of the world that we live in. When gaining knowledge we don't only use one way of knowing for each area of knowledge. We use a network of ways of knowing for each area of knowledge in order to acquire new discovery. We can notice a network of ways of knowing is being used in mathematics and art. Not every area of knowledge uses the same network of ways of knowing. Instead, each area of knowledge has a slightly different network of ways of knowing.

Sitting in a classroom waiting for the teacher to walk in to teach today’s lesson, you have your pen and paper ready to take notes so you can learn for the test. Whether this scenario is a grade school student, a college student, or an employee waiting for the training to start this is where explicit knowledge would take place. Explicit knowledge is the easily communicated material that you can learn in a classroom or training room. It is something you find in a textbook and can be easily transferred through written or verbal communications. A great example of this is when I started working for GEICO I spent six weeks in a training room learning the explicit knowledge necessary to do the day-to-day job of being an Insurance Agent. It was crucial information, but its not what made me a top seller, its not what made me a great analyst, its not what made me a great recruiter, and its not what made me a great supervisor. What has helped me become a successful employee at GEICO has been the tacit knowledge I have picked up through the years. Tacit knowledge is what is learned through experiences. Throughout years of being with a company you will pick up the how, what, and who. What does this mean? Well basically it means if you pay attention to your surroundings and other employees doing this you will pick up the tacit knowledge on how to be a great employee. This does not only apply to work but it applies to life as well. Learning from your

In my Serbian culture, there is a common saying “A smart man learns from the mistakes of others, a stupid man, from his own”. In this culture, sharing knowledge from mistakes to books to recipes is considered the norm and all of the social interactions and relationships are built on and around the act and idea of sharing knowledge. Under similar context, Bhartrihari once said “Knowledge grows when shared”. Personal and shared knowledge influence one another and develop intellect of the society. They both correspond to the forms of the verb “to know”; personal knowledge corresponds to “I know”, while shared knowledge corresponds to “we know”. In this way, shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge, but in the same way, personal knowledge can influence shared knowledge. This led me to inquire: How do art and science influence our personal and shared knowledge belief systems?

First area of knowledge that I am going to discuss is natural science. Natural science might me defined as a branch of science that deals with the physical world, e.g., physics, chemistry, geology, and biology or it can be defined as the branch of knowledge that deals with the study of the physical world. Since the beginning of time people wanted to get to know world that was surrounding them. Through observations and countless number of experiments scientist gathered enormous amount of data which they interpreted and based on their interpretation they formed laws of how nature is governed. Many times those laws were incomplete or limited in that sense that they

I live in a society where I am surrounded by knowledge. More specifically, the culture I am a part of is one that values collaboration and the sharing of knowledge. This culture is that of students who are in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program (DP). While it is true that I am surrounded by knowledge, it is useless to me if I don’t use it in a successful way. When knowing how to use knowledge successfully, it is important to realize the difference between personal and shared knowledge and also how they can be used together. Fortunately, by being in the IB program I have been able to study this topic and form an opinion on it. Shared knowledge helps my personal knowledge develop.

Personal knowledge and shared knowledge are two extremely different ways in which people obtain knowledge. Shared knowledge is defined as ‘a socio-cultural knowledge, broadly along the lines of a set of norms, values, signifiers and cultural mores’ and ‘personal knowledge comes from the local experience of an individual’ . From my own perspective I believe shared knowledge is obtained through collaborative work; knowing from others, and personal knowledge is obtained from a person’s own opinion; what I know. The role the two forms of knowledge; personal knowledge and shared knowledge, play in human sciences and mathematics exemplifies their importance in a person’s understanding of the world.

Despite the negative connotation that ignorance has held throughout various time periods in history, there are moments when lack of knowledge has been extremely beneficial in the formation of new tools and technologies. Consequently, if there is no ignorance present in a situation, there is no way to ameliorate that ignorance into knowledge. Knowing the extent of one’s own knowledge can sometimes make a person wiser (Plato 429 BC). Furthermore, being aware of the limitations of one’s own knowledge should stimulate the desire to learn, due to humans being naturally curious creatures. Knowledge is something obtainable to everyone, only varying because of the various cultures and perspectives that exist worldwide. However, people sometimes refuse to expose themselves to divergent ideas because of their own knowledge that they perceive to be true, ceaselessly.

Knowledge contains “two total different ideas, which allows a dynamic balance to be maintained”: shared and personal. Personal knowledge benefits the individual who possesses it and is obtained through first-hand experience or observation. Shared knowledge, however, has the potential to benefit an entire population. The connection between personal knowledge and shared is an indivisible bond. One cannot separate something that is interwoven; this can be demonstrated in the example of a ladder. If separated, the ladder cannot exist as a ladder without its other half in the same way as before; the rungs would be too far apart and the pole would not be stable. Personal and shared knowledge share a similar quality which is best expressed using Yin-Yang

The basic definition of knowledge, as I see it, is “it can be personal or shared truths which can be justified by areas of knowing, and constructed by ways of knowing”, which is the information, understanding, a skill that we may get from experience and/or education. The application and the removal of personal knowledge influences shared knowledge, making it so that the value of itself is defined by its application and even by the lack of it. Leading to the knowledge question “To what extent is shared knowledge more valuable to the world than personal knowledge?”. How can one define ‘Value’ and is it fair to say that if knowledge is not shared, it is not applied in the world? Valuable to whom? To what? How do we measure value? Who judges value?

In perhaps Plato’s most seminal work, The Republic, Plato lays out his “theory of forms”, through the voice of Socrates. The rudimentary summary of this theory is that for each word, for example table, there exists a form of table that is intelligible, but not visible. Socrates links this theory with his difference between knowledge and belief, where knowledge is what is and belief is what is and is what is not. The combination of these two principles, illustrated by the well-known “cave allegory”, results in the understanding that all objects on earth are imperfect copies and can only be discussed with beliefs, and not knowledge.

To address this question we must distinguish between shared knowledge and personal knowledge. Shared knowledge is information that is known by most people in regards to a community. This might include facts or interpretations that are common among a community. For example utilitarianism in ethics is the greatest good for the greatest amount of people. Personal knowledge is the knowledge acquired from the experiences of a certain individual. I would say that shared knowledge shapes personal knowledge. This is mainly because from the day we are born we are influenced by many factors that define our character, such as culture, parents, education or religion. Over the course of history we have seen leaders that transformed vast populations with

By understanding the different uses of knowledge in life, we understand how different people from different places living in different time views certain knowledge. We also have a better understanding on how knowledge influences an individual’s views towards society and that is through shared knowledge mixed with their personal knowledge. We also get to understand that knowledge is sometimes mixed with emotions, which overshadows any kind of reasoning to the knowledge. We understand that knowledge is also gained due to human curiosity, gaining power (cold war) and also advancements towards better

Not long after the Day of Pentecost believers had to defend their faith from false teachers seeking to dilute, or subdue the power in the Gospel of Jesus. To combat heresy, orthodoxy had to be defined both by creed, and by the approval of writings recognized as God’s inspired Word. The Canon we study today remains the same powerful Scripture that has been transforming lives for thousands of years.