[Puddleglum]

Sesnse perception + comon sense (I see...)

Memory

Deductive - mathematic

Deductive - logical (same as above, plus macrocosm/microcosm fun)

Inductive/Inference based on past patterns ("It is Bill calling - he always calls at dinner time," "Bill will call at dinner time tomorrow")

Appeal to authority - "Experts say," "the history book says"

Revelation

Intuition

...And my least favorite, the statistical inference, i.e., "Americans feel the next Pope should be liberal" - the part-to-whole based on inference that the part is like the whole

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much for sharing your "types" of "knowledge" and your valuation of their certainty!

...And my least favorite, the statistical inference, i.e., "Americans feel the next Pope should be liberal" - the part-to-whole based on inference that the part is like the whole

It saddens me that the practice in the Clinton years has resulted in the Democrat party and much of the press thinking that decisions ought to be made on public opinion polls. Jeepers even some of the Supremes are saying such things, e.g. Ginsberg on international opinions of the U.S. Hopefully, the Republicans will not crater...