| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge |
Abecedarian
|
| learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge |
academy
|
| in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality |
accommodation
|
| all the knowledge and values shared by a society |
acculturation
,
culture
|
| personal knowledge or information about someone or something |
acquaintance
,
conversance
,
conversancy
,
familiarity
|
| cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge |
acquisition
,
learning
|
| person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist) |
agnostic
|
| religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God |
agnosticism
|
| disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge |
agnosticism
,
scepticism
,
skepticism
|
| knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence |
ancient history
|
| practical application of anatomical knowledge to diagnosis and treatment |
applied anatomy
,
clinical anatomy
|
| discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems |
applied science
,
engineering
,
engineering science
,
technology
|
| person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems |
applied scientist
,
engineer
,
technologist
|
| studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) |
arts
,
humanistic discipline
,
humanities
,
liberal arts
|
| someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs |
assimilator
,
learner
,
scholar
|
| having knowledge |
aware
|
| having knowledge of |
awareness
,
cognisance
,
cognizance
,
consciousness
,
knowingness
|
| branch of knowledge |
bailiwick
,
branch of knowledge
,
discipline
,
field
,
field of study
,
study
,
subject
,
subject area
,
subject field
|
| cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge |
basic cognitive process
|
| (statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause |
Bayes' theorem
|
