Posted by Mezei on October 02, 2002 at 10:09:37:

In Reply to: Re: definition of knowledge with respect to the KM posted by dmesei on September 30, 2002 at 03:57:34:

Hi Sohail,
I took the definition from a paper I wrote called the unified theory of knowledge. I've also written the one minute knowledge manager, and I've been working on km for a long time, at present I'm in the Canadian gov (amongst other things) helping out with the new km office.

The basic definition of knowledge, as it relates to km is that knowledge is how we perceive the world around us. Knowledge is really the 'means' we have for perceiving our surroundings, ie the vocabulary, the experiences, the perceptions, all these things which allow us to interract with the world.

We divide this knowledge into tacit/explicit, tacit representing the aspects of our personal knowledge which is difficult to share or communicate, explicit representing the knowledge we can immediately share or demonstrate.

Knowledge is also a subject unto itself, with its own taxonomy, lecixon etc. It is the subject which incorporates all other subjects, and my theory on knowledge is really the first outline of how knowledge exists, the dynamics, the form and so on. Because what knowledge represents, ultimately, is the big picture. It incorporates all the individual perceptions of the universe into an objective reality. That's the goal, anyway.

So KM is the study of how this subject/object duality of knowledge, the knowledge of the individual vs the knowledge of the group, coexists.

Don

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