Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Knowledge management would be tricky enough were there a single, widely known and complete body of knowledge. But none of these is the case, and one of the biggest problems philosophers face when defining knowledge is identifying what counts as knowledge. For example: could a statement that is true be knowledge if nobody happens to believe it? This means that as much as possible any description of knowledge must be independent of any assumptions about what is, or is not, knowledge. It must allow for multiple and sometimes contradictory systems of knowledge. It must allow for multiple taxonomies where the same word may have different meanings. All these and more problems are faced in knowledge management. This page is a god guide to the efforts under way to resolve the problems inherent in talking about knowledge. Useful, but difficult reading.

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