What Does It Mean To Know Something Analysis

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What Does it Mean to Know Something? “What does it mean to own something?” There are many different ways to determine the ownership of an object, if believed anything is truly owned. Two kinds of objects can be owned. There are tangible objects that can be seen and touched. Also, there are intangible objects that can’t be seen or felt. Value, or how desirable an object is, affects the ownership of these two types of objects as well. In order to fully understand the two classifications of objects I previously stated, a knowledge of value is required. Value is the measurement of how desirable an object is. There are two basic types of value; emotional value and monetary value. Emotional value is the value of an object to a specific person or group of people. Monetary is the value of an object in currency or trade. For example, one can trade in a car for a new one, or they can just buy it. Generally, tangible objects have monetary value and can be bought, even though almost everybody has a tangible object with emotional value. A toy or blanket owned as a baby or a family heirloom that has been passed through generations are examples of tangible objects with emotional value. All of these objects still have a monetary value though. Almost all tangible objects can be sold. This makes …show more content…

There are some exceptions though. Teaching for example, is something that can be bought to learn something. Knowledge is an intangible object because it cannot be seen or touched. Intangible objects can also be passed down from generation to generation. Stories about great-great-great grandfathers are likely an example of this. This makes tangibles much more valuable due to the reason that the way one person knows something is unique to themselves. Kind of like a game I played as a child, where one person whispers a word or phrase to the person next to them and by the time the word gets around the circle it’s almost always completely

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