2S) POE 3rd A (23-05-2017) Bharghava Shyam (C)
Name: A.N. Bharghava Shyam Admission Number: MAE15007 (23-May-2017) Question: What is prefigurative fallacy? What are some of the assumptions (especially about the relationship between different types of knowledge) on the part of curriculum designers that leads them often to commit this fallacy? What should be taken into account about epistemic ascent in order to avoid this fallacy? Answer: Before going to discuss about Prefigurative fallacy, we will discuss about different kinds of knowledge, because of these different kind of knowledge and about their vague assumptions only we get this prefigurative fallacy. There are three kinds of Knowledge which was recognized and identified by Epistemologists. The 3 types of Knowledge are Knowledge by acquaintance, know that and know how. In Knowledge by acquaintance we get knowledge through senses, In Know that we get knowledge through the propositions and in Know how kind of knowledge we get knowledge through some procedures...