Diversity makes you more confident in your beliefs, to better understand your choices and actions.  Define knowledge by knowledge and knowledge by description. Does one seem more prevalent than the other in your mind? What have famous thinkers/philosophers said about this in the past? Today ? Knowledge by acquaintance is knowledge acquired through action (experiences), while knowledge by description is knowledge acquired through written or spoken words (facts/statements). Personally, I believe that knowledge by acquaintance is more prevalent because experience teaches you your strengths and weaknesses. Everything has advantages and disadvantages, which is why knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description are important to better understand our environment. For example, to understand micromatter such as DNA, we need knowledge by description, because we are limited to gaining this knowledge through experience. On the other hand, when we conduct a science experiment, we understand the concept better rather than just reading about it. As mentioned above, I prefer knowledge by acquaintance, but without knowledge by description I would have very limited knowledge. The two types of knowledge