What is Knowledge???

[Guille]

After the question about what is intelligence, this one came into my head.

What is Knowledge?

[AntonioLao]

acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles as from study or investigations.

[Guille]

acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles as from study or investigations.

Yes, yes, I have searched in dictionaries, but I think that isn't a good enough definition, like, it doesn't seem complete.

[AntonioLao]

The more I know, the more I don't know. The more knowledge I have, the more knowledge I need to have (greed of knowledge).

the poor has it
the rich needs it
eat it you die

[Guille]

The more I know, the more I don't know. The more knowledge I have, the more knowledge I need to have (greed of knowledge).

the poor has it
the rich needs it
eat it you die

Good. Now let me write Plato's definition of rich people, which I completely agree with:

The rich isn't the one that more has, but the one that relatively to what he has, needs less.

But I also think this is a good definition of richness:

That who has time.

Coming back to knowledge, could we say that:

Knowledge is the factual, statistical and experiential obtained information via our intelligence.????

[Guille]

What does anybody think of this one:
Knowledge is the capacity to solve problems.

[AntonioLao]

In a theory of knowledge, the differentiation must be drawn between dogmatism and skepticism.

The dogmatic school asserts that it knows the truth, while the skeptics doubt anything discovered giving an objective reality which is forever unknowable and all idealized mathematical models are just creation of the human minds. But as long as experiments agree with the mathematical models then truth and certitude can be attained by empirical evidence.

On one end, there is no certitude in the quantum mechanical model of the universe. On the other end, the un-attainability of light speed and its consequence of infinite mass and zero extension limits all knowledge of the physical boundary of the universe taken as a whole, instead of as a sum of its quanta of zero-point energy.

[AntonioLao]

Beyond a theory of knowledge is the insolvability of a duality between wave and particle nature of the universe.

This duality exists simultaneously but cannot be experimentally separated into distinct precise answers, which in fact, the precision of one tends to make the other fuzzy and unknowable.

[AntonioLao]

If the universe is a wave function then its solution at infinity of distances is zero. If the universe is a particle then its momentum at infinity of masses is zero. In between these extremes, the true Lorentz invariance is the product of absolute acceleration and the metric of space-time [math]\\\\mathbf{a}\\\\cdot\\\\mathbf{r}=c^2[/math].

[Guille]

Knowledge can be considered a mixture of consciousness and understanding.