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The Views Of Shared Knowledge And Personal Knowledge

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With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge.

Shared knowledge is knowledge that belongs to a group or a society therefore it is knowledge that is trusted by many individuals, on the other hand personal knowledge is knowledge that belongs to one individual only. Therefore Areas of Knowledge are in the realm of shared knowledge whereas personal knowledge is where the ideas from the Areas of Knowledge are interpreted according to ones own perspective and accepted or rejected as part of ones own web of knowledge. Two areas of knowledge that shape our personal knowledge are History and the Arts. The shared knowledge provided in History and the Arts was once personal knowledge but it became Shared knowledge once evidence was provided to prove to a group or a society that it was the truth. For the people who study History or the Arts the knowledge that they are provided with immediately shapes their personal knowledge as they don’t challenge the ideas and theories that they are given as they believe them to be true. Therefore a knowledge question that can emerge from this topic is, to what extent can an individual trust shared knowledge?

Shared knowledge affects an individuals personal knowledge in …show more content…

The implications of this conclusion is that one only trusts shared knowledge that is backed by evidence and that they would discard all of the shared knowledge that cannot be proven to be

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