Posted by Richard on August 28, 1999 at 14:47:44:

In Reply to: Re: The Irony of Meaning posted by Daan de Koning on August 27, 1999 at 10:08:23:

"So yes, I've heard about phenomenology and hermeneutics. Somethinh about using the senses and telling stories to describe the 'sensations', I thought."

Maybe you should give phenomenology and hermeneutics more "thought"?!.

I do not believe that Kees question leads us away from a common sense debate in KM. I believe that the question is essential.

Personally I do not believe that any knowledge is wrong, because it is perceived from the view of the individual or the society.
That is also what makes it impossible to share.

Why is it that everybody keeps thinking that we can only act out of knowledge?. How do you think we learn?.
There is room for a lot of information in the human mind, that can be used as a tool for test or actual action, without ever being transformed into knowledge.

This information is very shareable after having been transformed to new information through both political and emotional processes.
One problem is that the information coming out, will hardly ever be the same as the one going in, which is why the story of a feather usually gets to deal with ten chicken.
This is also why IT-enabled KM is mostly just a big waste of time and money!.

YOU CAN NOT SHARE KNOWLEDGE!
(this is not for you Daan, but for the selected few who has still not awakened)

I believe I made that very clear this time!.

The difference between information and knowledge dos not lie in the context or form, but in the ability to operationalise it, or put it into form.
There is no such thing as tacit knowledge, not even Polanyi or Freud was able to show that. There is only one form, and that is plain and simple knowledge.
The rest is information or data or call it whatever you like, because it is exactly the same.
We can call it everything-but-knowledge if you like.

After more than a decade of dedicated work in this field, this is my very best.

PLEASE challenge me!!!.

Best regards
Richard

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