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imd20

I was thinking more something like ethics.

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4wedrifid
That could perhaps be called arational knowledge. The preference-like component of ethics, morals or desires which you have just because you have them.
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imd10

All the kinds of knowledge you describe are subclasses of rational knowledge. Is there irrational knowledge?

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0FeatherlessBiped
According to classical philosophy (e.g. Aristotle), sense knowledge is knowledge, but knowledge of a kind which does not depend on a rational faculty. One could call that irrational, a-rational, non-rational, pre-rational, etc., depending on the how one has sliced up the phenomenology.
0wedrifid
Believe stuff for crazy reasons (biased instincts, poor processing of data, etc). That's irrational knowledge - even if it happens to be wrong.
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imd10

Perhaps the difference between the Inquisition and Feynman is that science specifically claims it has nothing to say about morality, so it can't justify killing anyone in its name.

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-1PetjaY
Science has much to say about morality. It can say which morals different groups of people have, what are probable causes for morals, and which morals are useful on an gene|individual|group|society|planet level.