Replying to LO30592 --
Dear Hal:
If you define knowledge, as I do, as beliefs or claims which have survived
our tests and evaluations and which we therefore regard as true or closest
to true, then you must allow for the fact that (a) not all of our
knowledge is in use in the form of actions all of the time and yet we
still have it, and (b) that some of our knowledge may not be in our minds
at all and may be recorded in written or some other liguistic form.
Einstein's theory survived his death, and I have no doubt that it exists
in written form, even though I have never seen it before, nor does it
depend on me or my actions to exist or even its originator, Einstein, to
exist once it has been created. Yet, because Einstein's theory consists
of claims he made that survived his and others' tests and evaluations, it
is knowledge. Otherwise, what would you call beliefs or claims that have
survived our tests and evaluations if not knowledge?
Regards,
Mark
Mark W. McElroy
President, KMCI, Inc. [www.kmci.org]
CEO, Macroinnovation Associates, LLC [www.macroinnovation.com]
(802) 436-2250
>If one has knowledge, it can only be exhibited via action. Even if
>that action is talking or writing, it is still action.
>
>I am attempting to distinguish knowledge from information. I do not think
>anyone is confusing knowledge with action. The are related, and one is
>the only way to express the other. Outside of mind reading mind you.
>:-)
>Hal Popplewell
--"Mark W. McElroy" <mmcelroy@vermontel.net>
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