We as human being know lots of things and also we need knowledge sometime because it is useful for handling our life and achieving our goals and sometimes because of complex structure of our mind and brain we get satisfied by having knowledge without any direct and obvious usefulness in our life.
We can have ability knowledge which means we know how to do something for example driving a car but there is another type of knowledge which our main difference with other types of species and animals comes from that that is propositional knowledge. Propositional knowledge is a type of knowledge relating to statements generally this knowledge can be represented with this sentence that “Somebody(S) knows that P (a Proposition)”. For example I know that earth is rounded.
Due to importance of this kind of knowledge, a branch in philosophy has been created with the name of epistemology. As far as we are concerned with epistemological matters we should find the exact specification of propositional knowledge or at least we should try to find out some common specification for them.
I will continue this subject in my future posts
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