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  • Essay / Essay on knowledge and knowledge - 537

    A map is a representation of a territory. It is a tool that presents an aspect of a territory to the map reader to give a clearer and more in-depth understanding of the territory and help the reader navigate it. For a map to achieve this objective, it must simplify, that is to say reduce, shorten, make precise; shape and even enlarge since enlargement is taking a part of a whole and enlarging it. Likewise, Knowledge can be seen as a map representing reality. Through Knowledge one is able to gain a clearer and deeper understanding of reality and, in fact, use knowledge to improve reality, change it and create avenues for the acquisition of more knowledge . Just as there are different maps intended for different purposes, such as a political map or a physical map, there are different aspects of knowledge, such as domains of knowledge and ways of knowing, which represent different aspects of reality. In this essay I will focus on the natural sciences and arts as fields of knowledge and on language as a means of knowing, discussing to what extent...