Re: [silk] An organic model of knowledge

That was a somewhat idealized example. Nobody, not even you or I, could hope to relive a fraction of the experiences we read about. But well – if Bryson excites you, hike most anywhere else for that matter, or visit most any naval museum (there are excellent ones run by the Indian navy in Goa

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I've been exposed to what I call quiz snobbery quite a lot (a form of I-can-answer-quiz-questions-so-I-am-very-intelligent.) . A quiz may reveal someone's knowledge. More often, it reveals that person's store of information. And all too often I get into what I call the DKDC questions...Don't Know,

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Absolutely nothing wrong with the bell centennial question. It let you work facts out based on what you know .. but well, you ought to have known a telephone directory beforehand so that’s experiential knowledge right there. I don’t even have a landline in my house for the past few years and

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On 26/08/16, 6:14 PM, "silklist on behalf of Thejaswi Udupa" wrote: >I have a fairly simple model for quizzing. I treat it as an >amateur sport. >And derive the same joy out of it, that a guy Ah, but

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> On Aug 26, 2016, at 17:21, Thaths wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:39 PM WordPsmith wrote: >> >> Intrigued by the phrase "second-hand nature of knowledge." Can any >> knowledge be grouped into first- and second-hand? > > > Sure, why not? Isn't

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Intrigued by the phrase "second-hand nature of knowledge." Can any knowledge be grouped into first- and second-hand? Surely we all read *about* distant lands, for example, without visiting them. Would that be considered second-hand and therefore a "lesser" form of knowledge? I'd agree with

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Fantastic article. I too was a quizzer during school and college in Bangalore and while I was good enough to represent them, I wasn't good enough to come close to winning. And yet, when I was in Oxford for a year, I went religiously to the weekly pub quiz, which was exactly like Samanth describes

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> On Aug 26, 2016, at 17:16, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > I am not running down reading at all. But Eruv was probably a more trivial > example. > > You and I have read about Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki, Ra expeditions and Bill > Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” about the

[silk] An organic model of knowledge

Quizzing is a common trait among Silklisters. Here is a piece by fellow Silklister Samanth on the differences between Indian quizzing and its American and European cousins. I have found the second-hand nature of the knowledge being rewarded in Indian quizzing circles to be strange. Take Samanth's

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On 26/08/16, 5:00 PM, "silklist on behalf of WordPsmith" wrote: > Intrigued by the phrase "second-hand nature of knowledge." > Can any knowledge be grouped into first- and second-hand? Oh I don’t know.

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> On Aug 26, 2016, at 16:52, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > >> On 26/08/16, 5:00 PM, "silklist on behalf of WordPsmith" >> > wordpsm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Intrigued by the phrase "second-hand nature

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I am not running down reading at all. But Eruv was probably a more trivial example. You and I have read about Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki, Ra expeditions and Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” about the Appalachian trail. And possibly Patrick O’Brian’s novels about the royal navy in the Napoleonic

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Good to read, thanks Suresh. I've definitely participated in quizzes with Metaquizzics, but I suppose a later iteration (between 1996 and 1999 in particular). I suppose I will finish the movie now... On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On

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On 26/08/16, 3:32 PM, "silklist on behalf of Venkatesh H R" wrote: > Btw, did anyone see Brahman Naman. I saw the first half of > the movie but was put off by a few things (such as the lack > of the default

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:39 PM WordPsmith wrote: > Intrigued by the phrase "second-hand nature of knowledge." Can any > knowledge be grouped into first- and second-hand? Sure, why not? Isn't there theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge? Isn't there a difference

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On 26/08/16, 7:57 PM, "silklist on behalf of Deepa Mohan" wrote: > Has anyone watched the Sunday afternoon quiz that's supposed > to have started on some TV channel, I forget which? Siddhartha Basu and