General Asylum: Re: Gibberish…for those who lack a knowledge about knowledge... by David Aiken General audio topics that don't fit into specific categories.

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Posted by David Aiken (A ) on September 1, 2005 at 17:29:42

In Reply to: Re: Gibberish…for those who lack a knowledge about knowledge... posted by Guy on September 1, 2005 at 09:21:05:

I didn't disagree with the 'balanced' part of your criteria and your points there are good. Nor did I disagree that theoretical and practical knowledge don't necessarily go hand in hand - what I said was that someone with a good understanding of a practical field had to have both.

My first point was simply that really understanding the basics is actually quite an advanced stage - a lot of things have to have 'clicked together' for someone to have that kind of understanding and that someone who genuinely does understand the basics always, in my experience, has a fair bit of expertise.

My second point was that you did say 'most knowledgeable' and then included an instruction to ignore advanced knowledge/expertise. Even if I didn't think that would exclude those who really understand the basics, as explained above, any exclusion or disregarding of those with a higher level of knowledge or expertise simply has to exclude the person with the most knowledge or expertise.

It's simply those 2 points that make your original request unanswerable and somewhat meaningless. If what you're looking for is an identification of those who are best capable of describing and explaining the basics in a way which makes in intelligible for the reader with no knowledge, then you're better of asking for that. What you really need to do is to say what abilities/knowledge you're looking for in the person without specifying exclusions because it's all too easy to end up excluding the people you are looking for simply because the exclusions were poorly worded.

And as for 'knowledge about knowledge', a few years of studying philosophy many years ago including a fair bit of epistemology - the study of the concept of knowledge - has left me with enough knowledge about knowledge to know it's a very slippery topic.

Glad you've found at least some of my posts helpful, even if my previous one here wasn't.

David Aiken

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