Posted by Reilly Atkinson on June 03, 1999 at 21:48:42:

In Reply to: Re: What is the difference between information and explicit knowledge? posted by Kees de Vos on June 03, 1999 at 18:33:27:

Hello Mr. de Vos
Interesting stuff, knowledge vs. information. I used to teach graduate level physics. I always thought, as did my professorial colleagues, that I was passing on knowledge of physics and how to do research in physics. However, as I think about it, it seems logically reasonable to say that I was passing on information on how to be a physicist. In my view, from the perspective of ordinary usage, knowledge and information are virtually synonyms. So then I ask, why worry about the differences in this context or others ?

In my opinion there's quite a lot of word play in writing about and discussions of KM -- there is nothing that I can see in KM approaching the empirical felicity of the natural sciences, nor even of the empirical fuzziness of much of the social sciences. That is, I know knowledge when I encounter it, but I haven't a clue as to how to give a clear account of the differences, or similarities, of knowledge vs. information.

How do you classify the "result" of the retinal processing and neural pathways that allow one to see green, and distinguish green from red. Tacit knowledge? Tacit information? Thanks for your attention. Reilly Atkinson

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