It explains things quite well. On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:01 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2 October 2010 20:53, Peter Damian <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: "David Gerard" <[email protected]> > > >> Wikipedia does appear to have fallen into its own folk ontology: an > >> answer to the question "what is knowledge?" that is simple and obvious > >> enough for smart high school students. And I'm not meaning to > >> denigrate smart high school students - but they haven't even had four > >> years of wrangling with the issue of "how do we know what we know?" at > >> undergraduate level. > > > David could you translate this section here please. Are you saying that > the > > question of what 'knowledge' that the WMF seeks to bring is a difficult > > question? > > > I didn't say or mean anything about the WMF. As I said, it's an > evolved folk construction of what knowledge means. And that this is a > hard question that actually getting really good at typically requires > four years of someone trying to beat it into the dense brains of > undergraduates. > > > > Also, be careful not to confuse the content of what is to be > > known with the medium through which it is acquired. For example if I > > explain x in a very simple way that anyone can understand, and if I > explain > > x using very technical way, the knowledge x is the same in both cases. > It's > > just that in one case it has explained in an easier way. We aren't > talking > > about different knowledge here. > > > No indeed. That's why I say the question is how to get across to > idiots that they are, in fact, idiots - without breaking what clearly > works fantastically well on Wikipedia. (How to avoid, for instance, > falling into a credentialism death spiral.) > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
