Processes of knowing as used in the literary characterof Relkin Orphanboy in the Bazil Broketail series by Christopher Rowly
	In the books, Relkin is an orphan from the hill town of Quosh. At the age of ten he is paired with his charge, a two-ton battledragon named Bazil. After a failed first attempt at employment, the pair heads towards Marneri to enlist in the army. Marneri is a more perfect sort of Athens, all live in the safety of the walls, all dress simply, but their is a hierarchy and monach but they are kind(well the upper class is the monachs tend to be a bit bitter). Relkin befriends a girl from the Tarcho clan and thus is helped to be able to try out for the new legion. After a conspiracy is uncovered and Bazil loses the tip of his tail (grown back by magic but is kinked hence broketail), the pair is enlisted in the 109th (Fighting) Marneri. Relkin soon perceives*1 that others powers besides skill and chance are guiding his foot steps.    He categorizes*2 this as abnormal because only two of the origional unit survives, the other carted off because of battl wounds. Abnormal for him is really out of place being as there are many witches in the government, some powerful ones he knows personally, and the enemy is a group of five men horribly twisted by their dark magic that attempts to bring the world under their domain by hordes of imps, trolls, etc.      Relkin evaluates*3 that some of this comes under chance and orphans being gifted with hard heads. The latter attributed to surviving many blows to the head. The rest he sybolizes*4 with gods and the supernatural.    Finally in an epic battle, Relkin tests fate and wins over a great embodiment of evil. The books are even better than this brief summery I gave, but they are out of print. Perceiving is using your senses to observe some basis to base your knowledge on. Categorizing is putting what you perceived into logical order. Evaluating is seeing if these categories and data makes sense. Symbolizing is putting the data into a usable form. Testing is seeing whether you were right.