Media, Information and Technoculture 3000A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: A Priori And A Posteriori, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning
14 Dec 2016
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Column 1: methods of knowing until plays to authority. According to sparks, there are 3 different methods of knowing, namely experience, a priori/authority, and science. It is a reliable path to knowledge that refers to knowledge of or skill of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event. Everyone has different experience about the same thing; thus, knowing something based on personal experience could be misleading. Use experience as a method of knowing is a fallacy because you cannot over-generalize your own experience to the same situation over and over to mislead others. *a priori comes from experience, a way of knowing. Authority: means knowledge of or skill of something or some event because a person or organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative, sphere, says so. However, this way of knowing is problematic because authorities are human beings, who could make mistakes as well.
