What do you mean by zero knowledge?
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What do you mean by zero knowledge?
Zero-knowledge: if the statement is true, no verifier learns anything other than the fact that the statement is true. In other words, just knowing the statement (not the secret) is sufficient to imagine a scenario showing that the prover knows the secret.
What constitutes knowledge of a language?
Knowing a language is a matter of knowing the system of rules and principles that is the grammar for that language. To have such knowledge is to have an explicit internal representation of these rules and principles, which speakers use in the course of language production and understanding. (
How do we acquire knowledge through language?
For example, to acquire knowledge we read information online, research findings of others, look through textbooks, or simply listen to others (like your teachers, for example). We use language to represent ideas, to make sense of the world, and to talk about what is “out there”.
How is knowledge of language acquired?
Children acquire language through interaction – not only with their parents and other adults, but also with other children. All normal children who grow up in normal households, surrounded by conversation, will acquire the language that is being used around them.
Is knowledge possible without language?
However, while it appears that we can indeed think without language, it is also the case that there are certain kinds of thinking that are made possible by language. We may be able to think without language, but language lets us know that we are thinking.
How does language influence knowledge?
Language does not only increase knowledge but it affects the way one thinks. It affects how a certain individual sees things because he knows the main ways of knowing. Furthermore, he knows because of the knowledge perceived through the use of sense. People speak, read, and can sometimes read body language.