Knowledge is a key to being - either as such or in potential. The answer to "What is?" and "What is possible?" is tied in to "What can I know?", "What is knowledge?", and "What is knowable?"

The idea of a set of Knowledge Words arises as a preliminary to answering these questions and to developing some system - and supplement to what I have written. Also see Being Words and Basic Words.

Plan

A set words is a preliminary to building up possibilities for thought in symbolic / language terms. What are additional possibilities? Concepts, word combinations - elements of metaphysics, ontology?

Sources: Evolution and Design for ideas, words, modes systematization.

Plans and sources are the same or shared for Knowledge, Being and Basic Words.

Knowledge Words

General

Awareness - in one sense does not necessarily involve consciousness

Attention - focus, background

Consciousness

Vision

Dream

Attune

Adapt

Idea

Functions

The following functions -cognition and so on- are practical and not meant to be definitive.

Cognition

Sense - 5 senses + kinesthetic...

Perceive

Empirical

Intuition

Know

True, False

Believe

Correct, right

Think

Cognize

Concept

Meaning

Information

Data

Judgment

Emotion

Emote

Feel

Motivation

Does motivation fit into a perceive-judge / know-think )r( act cycle? Relation between emotion of motivation? Status of motivation?

Intent

Will

Desire

Intuition

Mystic

Yoga

Prayer

Degrees of Certainty

Fact

Theory

Hypothesis

Conjecture

Guess

Speculation

Hunch

Certain

Assertion

Probability

Possible

Actual

Real

Imaginary

Modes of Expression and Communication

General communication

Action as communication - action perceived is communicated and so communication

Action - non-intentional, intentional

Action - intentional: as action and as communication... action is [potential] communication

Stance, movement

Action - stylized as/for communication

Stance, movement

Affective expression of emotion - visual e.g. facial expression, auditory - vocal including tone, volume, cadence, vocalization i.e. a variety of sounds [phonemes], tactile, olfactory...

Iconic Expression or Depiction

Acting out and recreating - various motor and sensory modalities

Sketching

Molding [sculpting]

Onomatopoeia

Language

Elements of language: signs and symbols

Speech

Written

Para-verbal

Any of the foregoing modes

Affect

Stance and gesture

Quality of voice - tone and overtone, volume, rate, continuity

Cadence

Combined symbolic and iconic

General human and animal communication

Direct communication is generally multi-modal with regard to expression. And it may be questioned whether behavior is para-verbal or speech para-behavioral... or either.

Art

Drama

Poetry - includes language used to evoke emotion

Song and music

Dance

Ritual

Specialized Knowledge Words

Logic

Mathematics

Philosophy - humanities - the disciplines

Science - sciences

Truth

Justification

Proposition

Concept

Theory

Explanation

Understanding

Myth - tradition, custom

Religion

Innate Knowledge

Innate knowledge is more basic, prior to knowledge acquired by the individual organism. Knowledge acquired by the individual organism is ontogenetic - that is another word for knowledge acquired in the development of the organism and usually by specialized organs of cognition and perception; this kind of knowledge is what is commonly understood as knowledge and is simply referred to as knowledge or acquired knowledge. It is, however not the only kind of acquired knowledge. Innate knowledge is phylogenetic - acquired in evolution and innate to the individual organism. Is all knowledge acquired by some system?

The distinction between innate and acquired knowledge is not absolute in all ways or even in any particular way. To a degree, innate knowledge is bound into the organism. Innate knowledge may be accessible to the acquired modalities or their organs, and may be expressed. Innate and acquired knowledge may and do join together. Acquired knowledge functions on a base of innate knowledge. Acquired knowledge is free and alterable in the living of the organism. It is possessed or remembered and is expressible. Innate systems include the organs of acquisition, memory, alteration and expression.

As a generalization, innate knowledge is focused in the body, unconscious, not expressed, a-linguistic or pre-linguistic. As a tendency, acquired knowledge is focused in the nervous system, conscious, expressible, iconic - language being regarded as a elaboration of iconic expression and memory. In perception and cognition what is called the background is a mesh of acquired and innate forms.

To a significant degree motor, perceptual, iconic, memory, symbolic and linguistic, and expressive / communicative abilities are innate - they may however be developed; the related skills and repertoires are significantly acquired - but may be innate to some degree.

Innate knowledge - what modes of expression?