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Cognitive Knowledge

Cognitive Knowledge

Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781466683181|ISBN10: 146668318X|EISBN13: 9781466683198
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch002
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Constantin Bratianu. "Cognitive Knowledge." Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation, IGI Global, 2015, pp.27-49. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch002

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C. Bratianu (2015). Cognitive Knowledge. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch002

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Constantin Bratianu. "Cognitive Knowledge." In Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch002

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Abstract

The paradox of “known unknown” that characterizes our quest for knowledge has different meanings for different cultures and historical periods. For most philosophers from Plato to Descartes knowledge is a result of human reflection and not of human perception. The Cartesian dualism between mind and body reflected by the dictum “Cogito ergo sum!” makes mind more certain than matter, and knowledge the result of thinking. In this perspective, the “known unknown” reflects the gaps in our rational knowledge about the world, the gaps we are aware of. When we reverse the angle of analysis, and look at the internal world, the “unknown knowns” refers to the tacit knowledge that integrates our experience, intuitions, emotions, values, and ideals. The purpose of this chapter is to distill the content of the “known unknown” paradox and to extract some significant ideas about knowledge understanding.

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