KNOWLEDGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY 

P.c. Sankalpani

Faculty of Applied Sciences

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

(ASB/18/19/084)

chathuminisankalpani@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

When look at the learning with eye of philosophical, it is differ from general view. It is engaged with logical questioning and board discussion. Clarify thinking, explore meaning. Epistemology is about knowledge. Perception is important term of knowledge. Hume’s theory explain further about it.

Keywords: knowledge, Learning, perception, epistemology, disciplinary knowledge.

Introduction

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness or understanding or understanding someone or something , facts skills or object. When consider knowledge; epistemology, perception, reason, memory,   education, scientific inquiry are different ways and sources. Those are important in day-to-day life.

 EPISTEMOLOGY 

Epistemology is branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Study of nature , origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, are included epistemology. Many epistemologist think knowledge is justified true belief, where the justification we have is linked to the truth of the matter in the right kind of the way.

 

Perception

Perception is based on beliefs and leads to from further beliefs. Memories can affect perception. Because perception is bond with stimulate. Knowledge in the form of stored representations of past visual experience can affect perception in various ways. According to that perception can be different on experience of person.  Perception is based on how to interpret different sensations.  The perceptual process begins with receiving stimuli from the environment and ends with our interpretation of those stimuli. Three are five stages of perception which are; stimulation, organization, interpretation, memory and recall. The study of perception tells us to correct potentially hazardous environment conditions that threaten the senses and impair the ability to make decision.

The topic of perception can be divided into visual perception, auditory perception, olfactory perception, haptic perception, and gustatory perception.

Understanding perception is important because it affect to our day-to-day life. All peoples different from others and naturally our perception will sometime differ as well.

Hume’s theory of knowledge

In epistemology, Hume questioned common notion of personal identify and argued that there is no permanent “self” that continuous over time. He argues that such knowledge is impossible.  

Structure of disciplinary knowledge

An academic investigation of the concept of disciplinarily stats off with an exploration of the etymology of the term “discipline “originated from the Latin word “disciples”. DISCIPLINE IS AN ORGANIZED BODY OF KNOWLEDGE WITH A LOGICAL STUCURE. It is a network of concept and generalization which explain the relationship among a body of facts. The knowledge in different disciplines is gained through specialized techniques. There are four dimension of disciplinary knowledge. 

Knowledge; concepts ,relationship, theories of particular discipline.

Method: way of effective communication

Purpose; goal that drive disciplinary inquiry

Forms of communication: disciplinary language.

 

Important of knowledge; 

Knowledge is clearly valuable in the sense of securing success in practical life, or at least making success more.

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4. CONCLUSION

Let’s use philosophical knowledge for future success with the logic, attitudes, critical thinking effectively.