Discussing Knowledge
Knowledge is discussed extensively within the book. There is an initial chapter on knowledge itself and within that an attempt to explain what it is, or at least, what I think it is. This is where the idea of a knowledge family is introduced and for a little amusement, the idea of a knowledge family tree. The suggestion that there is a knowledge family tree is explored in more detail at the very end of the book. This first chapter about knowledge is one of exploration of meaning.
Applied knowledge has a chapter of its own. This reflects the way I worked with knowledge and it contains some of the ideas which were developed during work with many people from business and industry as well as discussing things like general knowledge, a term which is frequently used and little understood.
There is a related chapter on expertise. This probably relates to the chapter on learning just as much as to the chapters on knowledge. The chapter also develops the idea of understanding.
The final chapter in this group, although they are not sequential chapters, is a chapter on representing knowledge. The idea of somehow storing knowledge somewhere which is not in a human brain seems to be appealing to almost everyone, but is the concept of any real value. Certainly information can be stored externally to the human brain, but knowledge?