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Various Ways Of Knowing

"Embodied knowledge and other knowledge systems are reconcilable and like sound waves in relation to light waves, are truths and knowledge of different orders, but nonetheless, equally valuable." Often time's knowledge is used in relationship to power. How does one acquire knowledge? Are there different "ways of knowing" or is there a procedure to follow? Unit Two discusses how Afro- Diasporians know about their history, their ancestors, and themselves, considering what truth is what reality is, and what kinds of knowledge are considered reliable and or important. There are various ways of knowing including being told and taught, investigate/research, observation, experience, feeling, and embodied knowledge all of which is described throughout this essay.
In this society that thrives upon concrete information, meaning for something to be considered knowledgeable it most often has to written in a literary text wrong or right in ADW this is called Eurocentric truth. Those who......


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