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What is Knowledge?
Knowledge is life experiences, factual information, written records of information. Knowledge is what you know, but also, what you want to learn. Knowledge is the understanding of information. For example,a person not only knows the function of computer but also is good at using the computer in practice because the person absolutely understand subject**. **It can reside in the mind, the mind of others, and in sources of information such as books. Knowledge can be gained through activites, listening, creating, and any other process in which tacit or explicit information is being linked between sources.

__//Is knowledge tangible? //__ There are many ways someone can interpret the understanding of knowledge. In one of the interpretations some people might say that knowledge can be found all around us. Knowledge can be found in books in newspapers and even advertisements, so when you look at the word in that sense it could in fact be described as a tangible entity, however, knowledge could be intangible as well. Knowledge is not something we can touch in our real life; as we said, knowledge resides in the mind.

__//Is knowledge a process? //__ When you look at knowledge as being the collecting and understanding of information the answer to the question, is knowledge a process? I believe that, yes it is a process, because what is information? It is a grouping of data and data is a bunch of random facts and when you put all that data together, again, you make information, then that information goes on to be grouped and obtained by a person then that information becomes knowledge and I believe that to be the process of knowledge.

__//Does the word knowledge really have multiple meanings or are we just misusing the word? //__ People have many interpretations on the word knowledge, so I think that the meaning of knowledge can yes, have many meanings, because it is something imbedded in the back of the mind. Knowledge is just always going to be around in the back of the mind always growing and is always going to be interpreted to the most basic of understandings of it. Which is that knowledge is just what you know. That is my belief of the word and answers the question that yes the word knowledge does have multiple meanings.

__//Tacit Knowledge//__ is information that can only be learned through visually observing and is difficult to write down or describe in detail. It is based on intuition and instincts which means it is difficult to formalize into words.

__//Explicit Knowledge//__ is information that can be written, learned through reading or described with ease. Can be expressed in words and numbers and can be stored.