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''Επιστημη'', Episteme ) in Celsus Library in Ephesus , Turkey.]]
Knowledge is defined ( Oxford English Dictionary ) variously as (i) facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through Experience or Education ; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as "justified true belief". There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories.

Knowledge acquisition involves complex . The term ''knowledge'' is also used to mean the confident Understanding of a subject, with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.


DEFINING KNOWLEDGE

See Also: epistemology