different kinds of knowledge and examples

1. knowledge by acquaintance: knowledge of what it is to have a certain experience.

Example: knowledge of what it is like to be pregnant, knowledge of how it feels to have a heart attack, etc.

2. performative knowledge: knowledge of how to perform a certain activity. 

Example: knowledge of how to dance tango or how to ride a bicycle.

3. propositional knowledge: knowledge of whether a proposition is true or false. 

"Napoleon died in 1821," 

"John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963."

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"A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star."  

4. a priori knowledge: knowledge that can be acquired independent of experience. 

"brothers are male siblings," 

"5 is a prime number," 

"two points determine a line," 

"if two lines intersect, then they intersect in exactly one point."

5. a posteriori knowledge: knowledge based on experience. 

"all mammals are vertebrates," 

"water boils at 100 degrees Celsius," 

"Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system",

"A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus",

"Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter was born and raised in Houston, Texas."

6. analytic proposition: a proposition that is a logical truth or can be turned into a logical truth by substituting synonym for synonym. 

 

"all bachelors are unmarried males," 

"all triangles have three sides,"  

7. synthetic proposition: a proposition whose predicate concept is not contained in its subject concept but is related. 

"All creatures with hearts have kidneys,"

"An invertebrate is a cool-blooded animal with no backbone."