Some experts (athletes, dancers, musicians, visual artists, cabinet makers, lab technicians, mechanics, surgeon, etc.) may have acquired knowledge that is difficult to describe in words. Does this mean that other Ways of Knowing play a more important role

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Some experts (athletes, dancers, musicians, visual artists, cabinet makers, lab technicians, mechanics, surgeon, etc.) may have acquired knowledge that is difficult to describe in words. Does this mean that other Ways of Knowing play a more important role than language in knowing how to do something?

        Language is defined as “a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings”. Nowadays language plays a crucial part in the existence of human life and is used as a major way of knowing, by the side of others like perception and emotion. These are connected to further areas of knowledge like mathematics and ethics along others.  

        Mathematics is approximately applicable for everything. No matter what, even though experts have acquired a special knowledge the have to be aware of maths so they can complete their function. Mathematics involves dimension and precision, which can be decisive in any of the functions mentioned on the question. The space for dancers to perform in a group needs to be calculated carefully so they all fit in and don’t run into each other. Formations and tactics in sports are both things that contain maths and tactics may depend on how many players you have occupying one space or another.

        In almost everything you do, ethics are present. You have to act correctly and respect your adversaries at any time, following a code of conduct from society and human beings. In tennis, sometimes you serve and sometimes you receive the serve, and when you do this you have to be ready to serve and when receiving you have to get ready to receive the ball. This is acting in an ethical way and not leaving you opponent waiting for you, serving while he is not ready is also unethical and disrespectful. Like that being ethic is part of what you perform.      

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Of all ways of knowing I think that perception contains the largest importance in the way that experts have obtained knowledge about what they do. With perception of time athletes in marathons will know what how fast they will need to run so that he achieves his time objective, the athlete being capable of also percept opponents coming closer may help him by making he increase his velocity. Perception is also fundamental in team sports like football and rugby, since players have to be able to be aware of all movements going on around him so that he does not ...

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