The Three Kinds of Knowledge and Lacrosse1. Experience 2. Authority 3. Reason Experience Freshman year was my first year playing Lacrosse and i found it to be extremely difficult to catch and throw the ball. I practiced with friends in my neighborhood and read about proper ways to cradle, catch, and throw. Though practice I gained the skills i needed to play defense. At the end of my Sophomore year i was pulled up to varsity because of my effort.  Some of the knowledge we obtain comes from Authorty. When your use authority to obtain knowledge, it is important that we evaluate whether or not the source is trustworthy. The greatest obstacle to knowledge from authority is fear of the cost. None of us are completely open-minded, and the investment we have in our beliefs sometimes stops us from exploring unknown aspects and futures. I learned all of the basic skills in lacrosse from my coaches. I believed what they taught me and trusted what they said to be correct. There information helped shape me into a good lacrosse player  Reason is the power to think in such a way that we proceed from what we know and what we do not know. There are two types of reasoning: Deduction and Induction. Deduction includes two statements, premises, and a conclusion from those two premises. Although this is a good way of reasoning, if your premises are false than your conclusion will be too. Induction is a from of reasoning in which one makes universal, always true, generalizations about something based on a limited number of experiences of that thing. In Lacrosse you have to make decisions all of the time. A Defender should never throw a pass directly across the field because of the chances that it getting picked off are high. If a defender uses smart reasoning he will take it up the sidelines or pass it to a middy near the sidelines  |
