[MD] What is knowledge?

[MarshaV]

Greetings Ian,

Close enough.  My mind was in a state of (not deep) 
oscillation.  Letting it go now.  Thanks.

Marsha


At 12:29 PM 6/28/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Marsha, perhaps I could address your questions another way ....
>
>The distinction being made between knowledge as "the known" and the
>source of "what might be knowable".
>
>As soon as we "reduce" knowledge to "the known" - objectivising it, we
>are undoubtedly intellectualising it ... ie this is intellectual
>knowledge, intellectual patterns.
>
>The stuff that is knowable (valu-able) is found in all sorts of
>relationships (patterns) across any and all the levels. We can
>experience (know, in the biblical sense ?) these patterns in ways that
>don't require us to intellectualise them - and if we accept them that
>way. As soon as we talk about them, and share our descriptions and
>debate them - we are intellectualising concepts. Which need not be a
>problem, provided we don't forget the distinction between the (any
>level) experience of knowing and the (intellectual) description of the
>known.
>
>I suspect you may be having trouble with this point, because it is
>already in your nature to value the knowing, rather than see the
>intellectual view as dominant.
>
>The latter is something we sciento-techno-geeks probably suffer from.
>
>Did that help ?
>ie you're not the one that needs help ;-)
>Ian