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June 2006 Poll |
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One of the hot debates in KM is "What is the meaning of the word 'knowledge'?". There are fundamentally two schools of thought. One that says knowledge is something that can only ever exist in your mind and everything else is just information. Another that says there are two forms of knowledge - 'tacit knowledge' that exists in your head and 'explicit knowledge' that is stored in some other medium e.g. paper or digitally. To my mind both views are valid. They are just two different ways of interpreting a word that has always been used rather loosely. I can quite happily switch between each depending on the context. But it is important to recognize that there are two views if you are to avoid arguments that at their core hinge on a different interpretation of this thing we call knowledge. Personally, I tend to use the tacit/explicit model because I find it more useful. I like to distinguish the ingredients of a cake (information) from the recipe (explicit knowledge). But which model do you prefer? And oh by the way this poll all prompted by a discussion taking place in the actKM Discussion List 
Which view of knowledge do you find the more pragmatic?
Based on 161 votes.
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27% (43 votes)
73% (118 votes)
