Outline of knowledge

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to knowledge:

Knowledge – familiarity with someone or something, which can include facts, information, descriptions, and/or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. It can be implicit (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical understanding of a subject); and it can be more or less formal or systematic.^[1]

Types of knowledge

• A priori and a posteriori knowledge
• Descriptive knowledge
• Extelligence
• Experience
• Libre knowledge
• Metaknowledge (knowledge about knowledge)
• Procedural knowledge
• Self-knowledge
• Tacit knowledge

Management of knowledge

Knowledge acquisition

Methods for attaining knowledge include:

• Exploration
  • Space exploration
  • Revelation
  • Research
    • Scientific method
    • Experimentation

• Learning
  • Reading
  • Studying
  • Knowledge building
    • Knowledge building communities

Knowledge storage

Knowledge can be stored in:

• Books
• Knowledge bases
  • Wikipedia
• Knowledge representation (AI)
• Libraries
• Memory

Knowledge retrieval

Stored knowledge can be retrieved by:

• Knowledge retrieval
  • Knowledge discovery
• Knowledge transfer
• Reading
• Recollection

History of the knowledge of humankind

• Historiography (History of history)
• History of exploration
  • History of space exploration
• History of invention
• History of philosophy
• History of science

Politics of knowledge

• Access to Knowledge movement
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
• New encyclopedism
• Open access

Knowledge of humankind

• Humanities and arts
  • Classics
  • History
    • Language
  • Literature
  • Performing arts
    • Dance
    • Music
    • Theatre
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Visual arts
    • Media type
    • Painting

• Social sciences
  • Anthropology
  • Economics
    • Trade
  • Education
  • Geography
  • Law
    • Jurisprudence
  • Linguistics
  • Political science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Science
  • Natural Sciences
    • Astronomy
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Earth Sciences
    • Mathematics
    • Physics
  • Engineering / Technology
    • Aerospace engineering
    • Biotechnology / Biological engineering
    • Biomedical engineering
    • Chemical engineering
    • Civil engineering
    • Computer science / Computer engineering
    • Electrical engineering
    • Electronics engineering
    • Environmental engineering
    • Industrial engineering
    • Marine engineering / Naval architecture
    • Materials science and engineering
    • Mechanical engineering
    • Nuclear science and engineering
  • Healthcare sciences
    • Dentistry and oral health
    • Medicine and surgery
    • Veterinary medicine / Veterinary surgery

• Business and management

• Architecture

Publications

• A Guide For The Perplexed – critique of materialist scientism and an exploration of the nature and organization of knowledge. By E. F. Schumacher.
• Propædia – first of three parts of the 15th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, presenting its Outline of Knowledge.

See also

• Belief
• Data
• Information
• Truth
• Wisdom

References

External links

• This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com

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