{"id":4485,"date":"2021-09-24T07:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T06:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?page_id=4485"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:25:58","slug":"how-to-know-things","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?page_id=4485","title":{"rendered":"How to Know Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?page_id=4266\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4266\">Art of Learning Series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%\">\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/cbs.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=385bda10-72c3-40b9-9541-b37e0109d9de&#038;autoplay=false&#038;offerviewer=true&#038;showtitle=true&#038;showbrand=true&#038;captions=false&#038;interactivity=all\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; box-sizing: border-box;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\" aria-label=\"Integreret videoafspiller i Panopto\" aria-description=\"How to Know Things\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Video from October 22, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=1927\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1927\">You can\u2019t just believe what you are told.<\/a> Knowledge is a deep craft, maintained through the application of <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=1466\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1466\">philosophical, rhetorical, and literary<\/a> skills. Knowledgeable people don\u2019t just hold correct opinions, they have reasons for doing so. They can distinguish good from bad questions, share a sense of humor, and passionately disagree with each other. They don&#8217;t just <em>think<\/em> and <em>say<\/em> that they know something; they <em>write it down<\/em>. All of these capacities require years, not just of learning, but of discipline. Like any art, you develop it through practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=1927\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1927\">&#8220;How to Know Things&#8221;<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=1941\">\u201cHow to Make Up Your Mind<\/a>\u201c,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=1955\">\u201cHow to Speak Your Mind\u201d<\/a>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=3556\">\u201cHow to Write Prose\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/art2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cbs.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=ecfd46ed-6925-4274-ad1a-b08300eb8837&#038;autoplay=false&#038;offerviewer=true&#038;showtitle=true&#038;showbrand=true&#038;captions=false&#038;interactivity=all\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Video from September 20, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the Art of Learning Series Video from October 22, 2025 You can\u2019t just believe what you are told. Knowledge is a deep craft, maintained through the application of philosophical, rhetorical, and literary skills. Knowledgeable people don\u2019t just hold correct opinions, they have reasons for doing so. They can distinguish good from bad questions, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?page_id=4485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Know Things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4266,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7681,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4485\/revisions\/7681"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}