Media, Information and Technoculture 3000A/B Midterm: MIT3000A Midterm - Term Definitions

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3000A/B
• Professor: Robert Babe

Document Summary

A subjective way of acquiring knowledge by doing, living, observing listening, and trial and error. We learn from memory, in other words, we take what has happened in the past and apply it to the present. However, this leads to generalizations and error because we assume that one event will always have the same outcome. Therefore, experience can be a kind of false k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:455)ou a(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot taki(cid:374)g i(cid:374)to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)i(cid:396)(cid:272)u(cid:373)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:894)(cid:374)ot e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s experience will be the same). Experience can also be misleading because one can also associate cause and effects from experience but they are totally unrelated (superstitions). A process of classifying input data into objects or classes based on key features. Knowledge comes from authorities; to know through trust in someone knowledgeable in the field/topic. For example, medical experts, presidents, parents, philosophers, etc. are all authorities.