Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Dr.Meena Ganapathy
Methods of acquiring knowledge
Tradition
Authority
Borrowing
Trial & error
Personal experience
Role modeling
Intuition
Reasoning
Levels of development of
knowledge
Novice
Advance beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Reasoning
Deductive: General to specific
Eg: All human beings experience loss. All infants are human beings,
hence infants will experience loss if mother is absent.