(iii) ‘Experience of’ is not in itself knowledge
Suppose it were indisputable that God is genuinely experienced in some form of first-hand awareness. It does not follow that such first-hand experience or encounter, on its own, would count as knowledge at all. The point can be put this way. We generally think that someone who has experienced something for themselves is in a better position to know the truth about it than someone who has not. Yet why should that be so? What does first-hand experience add, that all available second-hand knowledge cannot supply?
Practice exam questions and real ones!
The first section are all on Media and Collective Identity.
A – To what extent is your chosen social group represented by stereotypes in TWO media? [50]
In your answer you should refer to:
- Semiotics and
- Ideology / hegemony