In addition to acquiring knowledge of the basic sciences, students also acquired competency in the core abilities through their learning activities.
Another pervasive and dangerous misconception is the belief that students need to learn to read before they can "read to learn"—that is, before they can start acquiring knowledge of the world, through their own reading.
Rather, to acquire knowledge of p through testimony is to come to know that p on the basis of someone's saying that p. "Saying that p" must be understood broadly, as including ordinary utterances in daily life, postings by bloggers on their web-logs, articles by journalists, delivery of information on television, radio, tapes, books, and other media.
If, however, you hallucinate that there is a cup on the table, you have perceptual seeming that p without perceiving that p. One family of epistemological issues about perception arises when we concern ourselves with the psychological nature of the perceptual processes through which we acquire knowledge of external objects.
We acquire knowledge of the world through the institutions of education, journalism, and scientific inquiry.
It is light, then, that enables us to "comprehend all the beautiful shining objects of the corporeal world".[36] Sight becomes the model by which we engage the universe: it is what makes knowledge possible since it is only through vision of tangible particulars that we acquire knowledge of intelligibles.
Students using the physical therapy multimedia materials acquired knowledge of the techniques through simultaneous visual and auditory modes, increasing the likelihood that the students would successfully apply the techniques in the lab and clinic setting.
Very few participants used direct scientific evidence sources in the decision-making process; most acquired knowledge of scientific evidence through indirect sources such as health care providers or the media, highlighting the responsibility of these groups to critically assess the quality and validity of scientific evidence since consumers/patients rely on them for accurate information.
They acquired knowledge of the origin of the Earth, through the first plants and animals and the evolution of organisms, and were introduced to human evolution.
Of course it's not about acquiring knowledge for knowledge's sake.
Such modern philosophers use legal battles in a courtroom as basic models of the process every person goes through in acquiring knowledge or opinion.
