Demonstration vs. Knowledge — What's the Difference?

The act or process of providing evidence for or showing the truth of something

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts (descriptive knowledge), skills (procedural knowledge), or objects (acquaintance knowledge). By most accounts, knowledge can be acquired in many different ways and from many sources, including but not limited to perception, reason, memory, testimony, scientific inquiry, education, and practice.

An illustration or explanation, as of a theory or product, by exemplification or practical application

Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject

A piece of evidence

Awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation

An expression or manifestation, as of one's feelings

Sexual intercourse.

A public display of group opinion, as by a rally or march

The state or fact of knowing

The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.

Familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study

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The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

An event at which something will be demonstrated.

(Archaic) Carnal knowledge.

Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.

The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.

Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

A show of military force.

Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

A proof.

Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.

(philosophical) Justified true belief

An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show. See also sense 7 for a more specific related meaning.

Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).

The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.

(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.

Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack.

The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.

The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself.

(countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.

A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; - these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions.

(obsolete) Acknowledgement.

A public gathering of people to express some sentiment or feelings by explicit means, such as picketing, parading, carrying signs or shouting, usually in favor of or opposed to some action of government or of a business.

(obsolete) Notice, awareness.

The act of showing how a certain device, machine or product operates, or how a procedure is performed; - usually done for the purpose of inducing prospective customers to buy a product; as, a demonstration of the simple operation of a microwave oven.

The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.

A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view;

(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.

A show of military force or preparedness;

The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

A public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature);

That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; - chiefly used in the plural.

Proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion

That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.

A visual presentation showing how something works;

That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.

Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.

Sexual intercourse; - usually preceded by carnal; same as carnal knowledge.

To acknowledge.

The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning