INTELLIGENCE EPISTEMOLOGY AND GNOSEOLOGY

Abstract

It analyzes aspects related to the theories of knowledge (epistemology) and learning (gnosiology),
in their contexts, general and particular, passing through the considerations and approaches of the
ancient thinkers, mainly Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, with the purpose of broadening the understanding
of nature, sources and fundamentals, validity and limits of what can be known, incorporating them
into the scope of actuation of intelligence professionals, especially for those involved in the activities
inherent to the function of analysis. It questions the claim of the concept of “science” by several
branches of knowledge and discusses the possibility of the existence of a “scientific methodology” or the “scientific” nature of branches of knowledge that do not focus on nature, specifically about
nature, function and importance of knowledge of Intelligence, as well as the “cycle” or path to the
production and the admissible sources, which, since its modernity leans, almost exclusively to the
knowledge that can be obtained by the Cartesian method. It relates and incorporates the elements
of epistemology and gnosiology into the knowledge production process employed in the activity of
Intelligence, proposing a broader and more inclusive approach to the characteristics of common sense,
traditional thinking and even the sensitive the production of knowledge of the Intelligence, in order to
appropriate all possible forms of interaction with the truth, that is, with the best information that can
be obtained with in the time and resources available.