cognition, knowledge, noesis
(noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Source: WordNet® 3.1
the Knowledge
A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places.
knowledge (usually uncountable, plural knowledges)
The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. [from 14th c.]
Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. [from 14th c.]
Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. [from 14th c.]
Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. [from 14th c.]
(philosophical) Justified true belief
(archaic or legal) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]
(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice. [15th-18th c.]
The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. [from 16th c.]
(countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete) Acknowledgement. [14th-16th c.]
(obsolete) Notice, awareness. [17th c.]
(UK, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
• Adjectives often used with “knowledge”: extensive, deep, superficial, theoretical, practical, useful, working, encyclopedic, public, private, scientific, tacit, explicit, general, specialized, special, broad, declarative, procedural, innate, etc.
• awareness
• cognizance
• ken
• knowingness
• learning
• ignorance
• background knowledge
• book knowledge
• carnal knowledge
• common knowledge
• foreknowledge
• general knowledge
• interknowledge
• metaknowledge
• prior knowledge
• protoknowledge
• public knowledge
• scientific knowledge
• traditional knowledge
• working knowledge
knowledge (third-person singular simple present knowledges, present participle knowledging, simple past and past participle knowledged)
(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. [13th-17th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Knowl"edge, n. Etym: [OE. knowlage, knowlege, knowleche, knawleche. The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, Goth. laiks dance. See Know, and cf. Lake, v. i., Lark a frolic.]
1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition. Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions. Locke.
2. That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural. There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges. Bacon. Knowledges is a term in frequent use by Bacon, and, though now obsolete, should be revived, as without it we are compelled to borrow "cognitions" to express its import. Sir W. Hamilton. To use a word of Bacon's, now unfortunately obsolete, we must determine the relative value of knowledges. H. Spencer.
3. That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 1 Cor. viii. 1. Ignorance is the curse of God; -Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.
4. That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life. Shipmen that had knowledge of the sea. 1 Kings ix. 27.
5. Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge. Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me Ruth ii. 10.
6. Sexual intercourse; -- usually preceded by carnal; as, carnal knowledge.
Syn.
– See Wisdom.
Knowl"edge, v. t.
Definition: To acknowledge. [Obs.] "Sinners which knowledge their sins." Tyndale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
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