That is, students' quantitative literacy was characterized by an interrelationship among mathematical cognition, disposition, and beliefs in the simplicity of mathematical knowledge, e.g., increased mathematical cognition is related to positive disposition and decreased beliefs in the simplicity of mathematics and inversely.
Furthermore, we added several items focusing on theory versus facts as well as on the connectedness, respectively isolatedness of medicine-specific knowledge to assess the structure or simplicity of medical knowledge.
The internal consistency of these six items is relatively low (α 1 = 0.51, α 2 = 0.58, α 3 = 0.56, α FULL = 0.56), but along with the face validity of the items, provides some evidence that the scale will be useful as a measure of the simplicity of mathematical knowledge.
These include: the speed at which learning happens, the simplicity or complexity of knowledge, the certainty with which things are known, and whether an individual's learning ability is innate or can be improved through effort.
That we've managed so far to create a desirable life out of simplicity: love, friendship, knowledge, art.
But metaphysical issues about the simplicity of Forms also affect how we are to conceive of knowledge in these middle period works.
We grow out of many things in our lives, but we remember the innocence and simplicity of that earlier time with the knowledge that we have moved on.
Within these two categories, the nature of knowledge can be thought of in terms of the simplicity and certainty of knowledge, and the nature of knowing can be thought of in terms of the source and justification of knowledge.
