Posted by Martyn R Jones on August 01, 1999 at 17:51:55:

In Reply to: Re: Explicit - Knowledge a description of presentation? posted by P. Richard Hansen on July 29, 1999 at 10:20:21:

Hello Richard,

A couple of questions:

Why can you manage information and not (at least some classes of) knowledge?

Are you assuming that management in this context is some sort of team leader/supervisory role?

With regards to formatting I would agree that format is unimportant on the small scale, consider the following:

i) I want a drink?
ii) Want A Drink I
iii) A Drink Want I
iv) Drink A I want etc.

Simple no format, but nontheless with a little imagination is straightfoprward to take a guess about what is being said. However, if, for the sake of argument, we republished Daniel C. Dennett's "Kinds of Minds" with no absolutely regard for format then maybe it would be a little more difficult to gain any understanding - if we were especially devious we could use format to make virtually anything relatively complex also relatively meaningless.

Would you say that format has no importance in any context?

Why do you say that explicit knowledge is no different to information? isn't this again starting out on the slippery slope of reductum as absurdum?

Best regards,

Martyn R Jones

• KM not over until its not all over

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