Posted by Ramesh on February 08, 1998 at 02:47:10:

In the context of knowledge creation and transfer (ie. generating implicit knowledge and converting it to explocit) the old way of doing it relies heavily on theory and principles. This may have its advantages, but the major disadvantages are that the new learners take it as an absolute truth rather than a systematic view point. Metaphors, on the other hand have an inherent advantage of seeking similarities in dis-similar objects, and hence can never be mistaken as absolute in any sense. Also, the speed of "knpwledge" transfer is very fast, because we map newer domains on to existing viewpoints wherein we are very comfortable.

all views on this will be very welcome.

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• Re: theories .vs. metaphors as creators and disseminators of knowledge Martyn R Jones 02:45:27 2/16/98 (0)
• Re: theories .vs. metaphors as creators and disseminators of knowledge Yogesh Malhotra 03:08:14 2/08/98 (4)
  • Re: theories .vs. metaphors as creators and disseminators of knowledge Ramesh 06:18:03 2/08/98 (3)
    • Re: theories .vs. metaphors as creators and disseminators of knowledge Yogesh Malhotra 08:11:27 2/10/98 (0)
    • Re: theories .vs. metaphors as creators and disseminators of knowledge Mezei 13:22:40 2/09/98 (0)
    • Re: theories .vs. metaphors as creators and disseminators of knowledge Tom Sudman 11:02:44 2/09/98 (0)

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