Indirect Knowledge

Indirect knowledge is a kind of knowledge.

It is characterised by relations among contents in the memory that are formed as a result of a logical operations.

Examples :

• Its day here, so it is night in countries on the other side of the planet.
• The road is wet, it rained when I was asleep.
• All crows are black.
• Distance between Earth and Sun is 8 lightminutes.
• That person lied to me, it is not safe to deal with him in future.

And so on. Although the actual events/objects were not witnessed, there is still a logical relation here, i.e. knowledge is formed indirectly.

Notice that one must have a direct knowledge of at least one instant of the object/event before one can form a meaningful relation. The logical operations are based on past experiences, and can be an inference, deduction/induction, guess, probability or even an exact number etc.

Indirect knowledge is very useful, but less reliable, as there is a low amount of certainty about it.