Posted by Mezei on January 21, 2000 at 17:29:26:

In Reply to: Re: KM -- Why Bother? posted by Reilly Atkinson on January 21, 2000 at 15:50:07:

Hi Reilly,

Every substratum like Natural Philosophy, Helegelian thinking etc make up, or point to, a universal theory of knowledge - in an intellectual or classical sense i.e. knowledge on the books. In this sense, knowledge is the pinnacle of intellectual striving, to move away from multi or isolated disciplines, and towards a common or unified discipline. In a way, its like language itself. All these different dialects, tongues, what have you, gradually finding a common basis until we have some universal way of expressing ourselves.

Knowledge is sort of like that. When the overlap between disciplines start to take on a whole new meaning, when we start referring to intellectual pursuits as something other than physics, sociology etc, but rather, knowledge. I think Einstein said that it would be a true miracle to find a commond basis for all the sciences. That, objectively speaking, is the language of knowledge. A subject in an of itself.

Don

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