Knowledge that has been scientifically tested or researched and claims to be predictive or not just happening by chance is known as:
a. critical knowledge.
b. empirical knowledge.
c. interpretive knowledge.
d. subjective knowledge.
b
Empirical knowledge, as the name suggests, has been
scientifically tested or researched and claims to be predictive, or not happening by chance. Interpretive knowledge is
the human or personal experiences, values and judgments
about how we feel and think and is said to be a true account
from that person's lived experience. Critical knowledge is
also referred to as emancipatory as it is seen to free individuals or groups from oppressive conditions and give them the
consciousness to view the world from a different perspective
or understanding.
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