I define knowledge much more broadly. Knowledge is anything that can be known If you know what jesus had on his last supper almost 2000 years ago, that's knowledge. If you know what some guy had for lunch last year, that's knowledge, that's knowledge too. If you know a math theorem that you just finished but you haven't told anyone, that's knowledge. If you know a word that you invented but no one else in the world knows, that's still knowledge.
--- Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com wrote:
I define knowledge as useful information.
Knowing what some guy had for lunch last year, while technically knowledge, does very little in the way of usefulness.
I define useful knowledge as information that allows critical thinking and analysis, as well as information that allows the solving of real world problems (supply chain management, solving crime, managing market economies, etc)
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