Introduction
‘For any person, there are some things they know, and some things they don’t. What exactly is the difference? (Ichikawa and Steup, 2024, para. 1).
The nature of knowledge has been debated for thousands of years and there is no one universally agreed definition of knowledge. This author provides a pragmatism based definition: knowledge is our current, empirically justified, understanding of a subject. We store data, we transmit it as information, we understand (empirically justi-fied) information as knowledge, and we apply knowledge as wisdom for social benefit.
Introduction
‘For any person, there are some things they know, and some things they don’t. What exactly is the difference? (Ichikawa and Steup, 2024, para. 1).
The nature of knowledge has been debated for thousands of years and there is no one universally agreed definition of knowledge. This author provides a pragmatism based definition: knowledge is our current, empirically justified, understanding of a subject. We store data, we transmit it as information, we understand (empirically justi-fied) information as knowledge, and we apply knowledge as wisdom for social benefit.
‘For any person, there are some things they know, and some things they don’t. What exactly is the difference? (Ichikawa and Steup, 2024, para. 1).
The nature of knowledge has been debated for thousands of years and there is no one universally agreed definition of knowledge. This author provides a pragmatism based definition: knowledge is our current, empirically justified, understanding of a subject. We store data, we transmit it as information, we understand (empirically justi-fied) information as knowledge, and we apply knowledge as wisdom for social benefit.