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This course will explore how differing paradigms of research are reflected in research articles and publications. This will involve introducing students to contrasting genres of scholarly writing …
Knowledge is simply information known through learning whereas understanding is what they know by life experience or practice which …
Investigating the sources of knowledge, then, means investigating modes of givenness – the ways experiences present the objects toward which they are directed. Accordingly, one of the most important tasks of phenomenology is to …
A basic source yields knowledge or justified belief without positive dependence on another source. This article distinguishes each of the above as a basic source of …
Epistemologists have virtually ignored reading as a source of knowledge. This paper argues, first, that reading is not to be equated with attending to testimony, and second that it cannot be...
Sources of Knowledge. There are many ways to gain knowledge, and some are better than others. As social scientist, you must be aware of each of these methods. Let’s look at several …
This article identifies the sources from which one acquires knowledge or justified belief. It distinguishes the “four standard basic sources”: perception, memory, consciousness, and …
This paper categorizes the research paradigms used in educational research into three types: empirical, logic-based, and lived expe-rience (das Erlebnis)-based. Empirical research is …
Title: Sources of knowledge : on the concept of a rational capacity for knowledge / Andrea Kern; translated by Daniel Smyth. Other titles: Quellen des Wissens.