what is the nature of knowledge?
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Knowledge is best defined (I think) by Peter Senge as "the capacity for effective action."\n\nThink of Obi-Wan Kenobi: he is full of knowledge, because he knows exactly what to do and how to act effectively.\n\nSo to answer your question, I think the nature of knowledge is first mental.\n\nPeople often confuse knowledge with information. They often say that books contain knowledge, when in fact, books only contain information. That information becomes knowledge when you read it and integrate it into your long-term memory so you can use it at the right time and place.\n\nI would add to Senge's definition: "Knowledge is the capacity for effective action or superior discrimination."\n\nIn other words, knowledge should enable you to make better decisions because you can evaluate information better than the average person.
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Before attempting to address the question of knowledge management, it's probably appropriate to develop some perspective regarding this stuff called knowledge, which there seems to be such a desire to manage, really is. Consider this observation made by Neil Fleming\n A collection of data is not information. \nA collection of information is not knowledge. \nA collection of knowledge is not wisdom. \nA collection of wisdom is not truth. \nThe idea is that information, knowledge, and wisdom are more than simply collections. Rather, the whole represents more than the sum of its parts and has a synergy of its own.\n\n in summary the following associations can reasonably be made:\n\nInformation relates to description, definition, or perspective (what, who, when, where). \nKnowledge comprises strategy, practice, method, or approach (how). \nWisdom embodies principle, insight, moral, or archetype (why). \n\n\nThe value of Knowledge Management relates directly to the effectiveness with which the managed knowledge enables the members of the organization to deal with today's situations and effectively envision and create their future. Without on-demand access to managed knowledge, every situation is addressed based on what the individual or group brings to the situation with them. With on-demand access to managed knowledge, every situation is addressed with the sum total of everything anyone in the organization has ever learned about a situation of a similar nature. Which approach would you perceive would make a more effective organization?
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Information pertation to quantity or amount.\n\nExample:\nThe fact that I have seven oranges is quantitative information.
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Spinoza argues that knowledge of good and evil arises from the awareness of what causes pleasure and pain. The greatest good of the mind, and its greatest virtue, is to know God (IV, Prop. XXVIII). To act with virtue is to act according to reason (IV, Prop. XXXVI). If we act according to reason, then we desire only what is good. If we act according to reason, then we try to promote what is good not only for ourselves but for others. Freedom is the ability to act according to reason. Freedom is not the ability to make free, undetermined choices. Freedom is the ability to act rationally and to control the emotions. Servitude is the inability to act rationally or to control the emotions.  According to Spinoza, pain is the knowledge of evil. Pain arises from inadequate ideas, i.e. ideas which do not adequately express the essence of God. Knowledge of evil is thus inadequate knowledge (IV, Prop. XIV). Pleasure is knowledge of what is good. Pleasure arises from adequate ideas, i.e. ideas which adequately express the essence of God. Knowledge of good is thus adequate knowledge.
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you can get a career in anything!\n\nDefinitions of  epistemology  on the Web:\n\n    * The study of what is meant by "knowledge". What does it mean to "know" something as opposed to merely having an opinion. This issue has been at the core of Western philosophy since before Socrates, since, until it has been answered, all other questions become unsolvable.\n      academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/glossary.htm
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Wisdom is knowledge of God's Word.\n\nPsa 14:1  The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. \n\nSow to your spirit, the flesh will perish and so can your spirit.
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Knowledge - to know who I am and love me regardless. To know he loves me.\nTruth, honour - he defends me, always.\nHis hands; large and all encompassing. \nThe womb; because she can create from a very small input, something full of potential.\nHer breasts because she nourishes.\nHer brain because she is the most evolved.\nHer instinctual compassion, her femininity.
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wisdom \ncoz it just makes sence
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Knowledge and intelligence are two wholly different things, but one usually follows the other. Intelligence is the ability to rationally solve problems. Knowledge is just knowing a lot of stuff, like an encyclopedia.\n\nOh, and I hope that Fruitcake! is joking.
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This was a belief of Socrates the great philospher.  For questions of this sort, Socrates raises a serious dilemma: how can we ever learn what we do not know? Either we already know what we are looking for, in which case we don't need to look, or we don't know what we're looking for, in which case we wouldn't recognize it if we found it. \n\nThe paradox of knowledge is that, in the most fundamental questions about our own nature and function, it seems impossible for us to learn anything. The only escape, Socrates proposed, is to acknowledge that we already know what we need to know. This is the doctrine of recollection, Plato's conviction that our most basic knowledge comes when we bring back to mind our acquaintance with eternal realities during a previous existence of the soul. \n\nThe example offered is in the discovery of an irrational number, the square root of 2. Socrates leads an uneducated boy through the sophisticated geometrical demonstration with careful questions, showing that the boy somehow already knows the correct answers on his own. All of us have had the experience (usually in mathematical contexts, Plato believed) of suddenly realizing the truth of something of which we had been unaware, and it does often feel as if we are not really discovering something entirely new but rather merely remembering something we already knew. Such experiences lend some plausibility to Plato's claim that recollection may be the source of our true opinions about the most fundamental features of reality. What is more, this doctrine provides an explanation of the effectiveness of Socratic method: the goal is not to convey new information but rather to elicit awareness of something that an individual already knows.  Hope this helps!
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Intelligence is knowing facts.\n\nWisdom is knowing what to do with the facts you have.\n\nHuman ~wisdom~ is folly; only God's Wisdom is worthwhile.
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Knowledge is acquired through education, wisdom is acquired through life.  You realize that you are wise when you come to the realization that no matter how educated you are you know nothing.
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Mathematics is the only 'pure' form of communication and information that exists. 2+2=4, always has, always will.\nThere are many opinionated forms of knowledge such as History, Religion, Evolution, etc. Math is the only exact form that cannot be left to speculation. You can debate an answer to a problem but the answer never changes from its own truth.  40 divided by point 5 equals 80. Always has, always will.
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Science (from Latin scientifko - knowledge)
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The same reason we know about anything, the desire to know things. Learn, study, be knowlegeable, about all places and all things.
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Epistemology is the branch of philosophy which studies the nature and standards of knowledge. The big problem of epistemology is known as the "Problem of Universals".  This problem deals with the relationship of abstractions to concretes, that is ideas relation to facts.
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Creating knowledge is like creating a new house.\n\nThe assumption is the place you choose to build your house on.\n\nThe paradigm is the type of house you want to build: a building, a cathedral, etc.\n\nBeliefs are the rules you use to design and build the house.