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Exactly my point!


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Posted by P. Richard Hansen on July 18, 1999 at 06:28:04:

In Reply to: A Rose By Any Other Name posted by Martyn R Jones on July 17, 1999 at 21:21:50:

No, I was not putting my knowledge on paper!. I was merely putting politicised information on paper in order to change somebodys view on something.
My knowledge, and yours, is so complex that it is not possible for me or you to put it down on paper. We see things from different views, which is why we say the same things but still disagree.
Keep in mind that there is a great difference between the written and the spoken word. We have the nodes written down on classical music over 300 years old, but we have no idea of how it was played.

The great writers you mention are merely contributers to oppinion and they are known to disagree amongst each other. (eg. Schumpeter and Keynes, Freud and Jung etc.)
I do not see the field of KM as anything but what you describe as BI, and I certainly do not like the word knowledge re-use, it klings very hollow.
And I certainly do take into to account the cultures that this forum has built of its own.
It is in very detail a good example of my point. Knowledge is a social and cultural construction and is only fully understood among those people that have participated in the construction.
You thereby undermine your own argument by saying that forums take their own life. All knowledge was eventually created in some kind of forum!, and therefor has assumptions of its own, that is not fully understandable for outsiders.

What we are merely doing here is sharing information on points of views. The only part of this sharing that has anything to do with knowledge is the parts that we take for granted.
These parts are a social construction between us and the knowledge produced dos not have to be shared with others. There is also no way of telling if it is true or not.
The important thing is that it has a function in this (our) community, constructive or conflictual (some say its the same).
That is why there is a surface to scratch!.

Best regards
Richard

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