Is knowledge an entity in and of itself? Is there anything truly universal in the nature of knowledge?

Question

Is knowledge an entity in and of itself? Is there anything truly universal in the nature of knowledge?

Answer 1

Rather how much knowledge it accumulated understanding does man require and for what aim, intent and purpose does he seek knowledge and enlightenment, and the mastery thereof. What does he hope to gain or accomplish. If he knows or recognises not his end goal, or objective, or destination, how then can he charter a course, map a journey for which there is no determined end...That is the question... ?

Answer 2

Yes.  It is a universal we all apprehend.

Answer 3

Knowledge itself is universal.

Answer 4

God.

Answer 5

i don't know really if i understand the question but if your talking about do you think that we have some kind of inner knowledge looked up in are brains that actually is an entity in itself that were all connected some way some how universally then yes

Answer 6

Rubbish!  

Answer 7

Self-knowledge is an entity in itself and is universal.

Answer 8

Knowledge is a conceptual existent. That is the only way in which it is an "entity." Otherwise, it would be a reified "thing," Aristotle's "thing in itself," as if science could someday extract it and bottle it. Knowledge is the combined content of a man's store of information, or a single piece of it.

Universals are abstractions made from observation. This is because universals are concepts of similarities. Another way of defining them is to say they are "genera."

"Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit, a species, when integrated with others into a wider genus. For instance, “table” is a species of the genus “furniture,” which is a species of the genus “household goods,” which is a species of the genus “man-made objects.” “Man” is a species of the genus “animal,” which is a species of the genus “organism,” which is a species of the genus “entity.” Ayn Rand

From universals, or genera, we abstract "differentia."

"The distinguishing characteristic(s) of the units becomes the differentia of the concept’s definition; the existents possessing a Conceptual Common Denominator become the genus." Rand

Answer 9

Knowledge means what one knows...... thus it is an object for the subject to know. The real entity therefore is the subject who knows and the knowledge is merely an attribute of that real entity.

Any specific knowledge in itself can not be an entity since it can reside in many many minds simultaneously.

The only way knowledge can be considered an entity in itself is to look at it as knowledge as such..... knowledge as such would be the totality and entirety of all knowledge as a whole..... this would be a sort of abstract entity that is not bound by space and time and is thus limitless and changeless. In this kind of the concept that does give it a universality, knowledge as such is hardly different from our concept of 'Brahm' as propounded in the Indian Philosophy which is supposed to be the only real entity manifesting in all and everything physical as well as non-physical (thoughts, feelings etc.) through the process of temporal or illusory creation called 'Maya'.