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Subject:Re: Knowledge versus Information From:"Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:48:52 -0500
So, you are saying that the distinction between information and
knowledge is information, but not knowledge?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Altom [SMTP:taltom -at- IQUEST -dot- NET]
>
>In my earlier years I was also intensely interested in such distinctions and
>in the theoretical implications. But I've begun to conclude that, in a real
>world, these are distinctions that feed our need for theory to justify
>grants to study more distinctions. Information or knowledge? Frankly, for
>most purposes, it's a senseless separation that obscures the more basic
>problem, which is how to get what we want from our cubicles to somebody
>else's abode.
>...
