What is the true meaning of Knowledge?

I would like to see if anyone would be able to answer the question that puzzled even the greatest philosophers.There have been countless definitions given by philosophers throughout history but what do you think knowledge is? Is it a skill/art? Is it a virtue? Is it something that can be taught through a classroom environment?





I would say that Sristotle came the closest to defining it by breaking knowledge down to three seperate but intelinked types of knowldge. Any reply is welcome.What is the true meaning of Knowledge?
I think you're confusing knowledge with wisdom. There really never has been much a controversy surrounding knowledge -- it's actually very cut and dried.





Knowledge is information which is true and can be verified through reason or empiricism. (e.g. The Capital of Italy is Rome... If all ';A'; are ';B';, and all ';B'; are ';C';, then all ';A'; are ';C';). Simple really, pure reason and empiricism -- ';Knowledge.';





Not much of a mystery there, I'm afraid. Wisdom, on the other hand, is another story. Wisdom can be defined as the ';Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of Correct Choosing.';What is the true meaning of Knowledge?
According to Wikipedia Aristotle said ';We suppose ourselves to possess unqualified scientific knowledge of a thing, as opposed to knowing it in the accidental way in which the sophist knows, when we think that we know the cause on which the fact depends, as the cause of that fact and of no other, and, further, that the fact could not be other than it is. Now that scientific knowing is something of this sort is evident — witness both those who falsely claim it and those who actually possess it, since the former merely imagine themselves to be, while the latter are also actually, in the condition described. Consequently the proper object of unqualified scientific knowledge is something which cannot be other than it is. ”


— Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
It seem to me that your are asking two different questions.


First question: what is the true meaning of Knowledge?


My answer is: the real meaning of knowledge is the ability to actually know the truth.





Second:


what do you think knowledge is? Is it a skill/art? Is it a virtue? Is it something that can be taught through a classroom environment?


My answer: Is a innate quality of the soul.
Knowledge is what we have when we know something, but the answer to a question is determined by the frame of reference in which the question is framed.So to know an answer means to know the answer to the question based on the assumptions the question assumed.Or to argue that the question is perhaps too black and white and therefore meaningless. So to arrive at a point where we see a question is meaningless without trying to answer it is knowledge, a bit like buddha.Absolute knowledge sees the inadequacy in questions. Like a zen master.
Actually, Aristotle said knowledge is the contents of the mind. He might have described 3 different categories of it, but its essence, he said, was ';contents';.





The contents are neither good, nor bad; benevolent nor malevolent; right or wrong; they just are what they are, whatever it is that has filled the tabula rasa up to the point in question.





Contents, and nothing more. That is the ';genus';. Those 3 categories would be ';species'; of knowledge.
To answer this you can look at the reflection of you question. You ask for a true meaning not a simple one. Knowledge is a skill, an art, a virtue. It is knowing you do not know and knowing you know. It is taught, in the class, in our environment and socially. It is as vague as it is specific.
general awareness or possession of information, facts, ideas, truths, or principles.





My goodness! When someone gave you a piece of information regarding something which you did not know before is a knowledge. Knowing who is the president of the United States is acquiring knowledge.
Knowledge is knowing what you need to know to do whatever it is you want/need to do.
All knowledge is academic based.


But Real Learning is through experience.
I believe knowledge comes through experience.
Our knowledge is merely a stronger belief that it is true.
Knowledge can be defined for example like this..... with all that i know


...if i cant learn something from anybody on earth then all i know is worthless
Who is Sristotle?
knowing stuff, and using your mind