Posted by Bruce Gold on October 05, 1998 at 15:06:56:

In Reply to: Re: Wisdom & Enlightenment in Knowledge Management? posted by Charlie Jackson on May 05, 1998 at 09:51:02:

Yogesh

I'm not entirely happy with the way the continuum from data to wisdom is being constructed. For starters there seems to be a tendency to see these as discreet stages or relatively clear cut categories. I question how clear cut these separations are. Further, the matter is complicated by the intentional nature of knowledge.
It is erroneous to think that any particular chunk of knowledge "belongs" in a particular category. Such a view rests on the assumption that knowledge is just "out there" rather than a human construct. Reality may be just "out there" but our take on it is not. Knowledge, from a human point of view, is a social construct tied both to the inherited knowledge structures that we "think beyond" i.e. language, isms, theories etc. and is also tied to our own purposes. Knowledge is therefore not just something that "exists" but something that "only exists in relationship" to human intellectual structures and purposes. This is the basis for the assertion that knowledge by its very nature is "strategic".
For a particular knowledge set we many be able to construct a continuum from data to wisdom but this particular arrangement of the individual elements only exists in the context of the knowledge "strategy" that we are implementing. One "strategy's" data may be another "strategy's" wisdom. Hence our inability to ever separate human intention from knowledge.
---Bruce

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