{
  "id": "knowledge.cognitive",
  "term": "knowledge",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "knowledge",
  "domain": "cognition",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "information that people have about something",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "people get information and persist it, make a state",
    "novel_properties": [
      "personal storage",
      "integrated meaning"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Library of Alexandria housed scrolls containing the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean world.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A honeybee performs a waggle dance to communicate the location of nectar sources to hive mates.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel maintains knowledge of hardware drivers and system calls across millions of lines of code.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "believe.cognitive",
    "certain.confidence",
    "cognitive.mental",
    "culture.social",
    "education.learning",
    "interest.psychological",
    "meaning.significance",
    "policy.governance",
    "questions.linguistic",
    "science.knowledge",
    "technical.skill",
    "technology.tool",
    "think.cognitive"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "knowledge"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-knowledge.cognitive"
}