[MD] What is knowledge?

[MarshaV]

At 08:42 AM 6/26/2007, you wrote:
>David, Marsha, good thread
>
>I think that "resonance" is also related to David's earlier
>distinction between the patterns that represent our known knowledge
>(our mental patterns, however recorded) and the actual "source" of
>knowledge - what can actually be "known".
>
>My take on that source, the thing that distinguishes it from an
>ontological view of things with properties, is that the source is the
>eptistemic view of knowledge or meaning as the "significance of
>relations between things" - The SOMist problem that MOQ solves as
>David also put it earlier.
>
>Value, quality, is about the significance of relations not "objective
>poesssions".
>
>Ian


Ian,

This problem I'm having dose seem to be obvious to everyone but me. 
What is knowledge and how do you separate into two separate levels of 
mind?  Social - Intellectual, should be simple.  Knowledge is 
separate little patterns of value.  Cow -biological.  Lead - 
inorganic.  watching a soccer game - social.  Quantum physics - 
intellectual.  Knowledge -  Huh??????   What kind?  Maybe I need to 
put it to a rest for the moment.  I'm feeling really stupid.  Maybe 
it's my misunderstanding of 'knowing'.  I've always stated that I 
really know nothing, and now I'm proving my point.

Marsha

p.s.  And I've just spent the day with my three-year old grandson 
whose questions were an eight-hour bombardment.  I need music.....