RE: Knowledge is manufactured?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote: 
 
> Philosophically (after all, it is Friday), I think the idea 
> behind "knowledge is manufactured" is the distinction between 
> facts and comprehending and understanding those facts and how 
> to use them successfully, which is "knowledge."  You can 
> acquire and transmit facts, but not knowledge, because the 
> comprehension and understanding must be recreated in the mind 
> of each individual who receives the facts; all you can do is 
> provide facts and the necessary tools to enable others to 
> "remanufacture"
> knowledge within themselves.

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house."
-- Jules-Henri Poincarré 

:-)

Richard


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