Response 7: Three Words from the Wise

As we roam into the inception of knowledge, we notice three main categories:

1.       Declarative

2.       Procedural

3.       Conditional

Declarative seems to be the foundation of our knowledge; it’s pretty much the raw data of facts and ideas that we already know. Relating this to our writings, I assume this is really the aim of the written assignment and the purpose of the paper. It could also be the basic facts that we know, such as what ethos and exigence is, or the main idea, such as convincing the reader that fire is actually blue in color- I’m just giving an example, I don’t really know if fire is actually blue.

Procedural is all about how you would go about doing things. A very relevant example of this are key points of a writing assignment as they describe how one goes about answering the declared statement or answer, creating a thesis; thus, one could argue that our thesis is really our main declarative and procedural of our writing. All in all, this is how you get to what you declared before.

Conditional is really just when and why you would use your declarative or why you used a certain procedure to determine it. As we learn certain aspects in life, our ideas alter and how we explain them could also take a turn; one could try to open a bag of chips with his teeth, but as he fails, he permanently amends the procedure to using a pair of scissors. Moreover, one could decide to rant about the authors diction and how it is used to terrify the reader even more, but after realizing the irrelevance of such an action to the proposed question, the writer take another route.

Personally, I believe one could relate such metacognitive knowledge to Sigmund Freud’s ID, Ego, and Super-Ego Theory where they resemble the declarative, procedural and conditional knowledge, respectively. The ID decides what it wants, the Ego finds a rational solution to get what is needed, though the Super-Ego compares such an action to society’s norms and the outcomes of going through this. As my conditional knowledge admonishes me of my schism to irrelevance, I will now stop talking ( but I won’t take this part off to prove a point).