et al, (01)
For me a robust understanding of knowledge is being able to drill down
on a bit of knowledge. That entails knowing the source, use and benefit
of that knowledge. It involves the ontological relations. (02)
While wisdom comes from having done things all wrong in all the wrong
ways and being able to explain why. Again, the drilling down is an
important aspect involved in failures or shortcomings. It seems to be
associated with the ontological constraints. (03)
-John Bottoms
FirstStar Systems
Concord, MA USA (04)
On 2/10/2013 11:59 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> Kingsley,
>
> This question broadens the thread far beyond the original issue
> of a Hippocratic oath for ontologists. But it's relevant to many
> questions about the ways that human thinking (and language) differ
> from the formalized systems in our computers.
>
> JFS
>>> This is the kind of advice that a wise old physician might give to
>>> a young MD or PhD who is full of "book learning", but lacks the
>>> clinical experience about how to apply that learning in an emergency.
> KI
>> The response above triggered the question above. As was the case
>> with Data and the Datum, there is scant information about how one
>> clearly distinguishes Knowledge and Wisdom.
> The first point I'd make is that knowledge is essential for wisdom,
> but it is not sufficient. But I also believe that wisdom is not
> limited to humans. Some pet owners, farmers, and naturalists who
> spend years living with animals in the wild know that. But I won't
> elaborate on that point because it would take us too far afield.
>
> There's a lot of nonsense written about left-brain vs. right-brain
> thinking, so I hesitate to raise that issue. Instead of saying
> that that wisdom resides in one side or the other, I believe that
> wisdom requires an *integration* of all aspects of all modes of
> thinking, feeling, knowing, perceiving, interpreting, and acting.
>
> I gave a talk recently that covers some of those issues. I put it
> together from slides I used in other talks, but I also added some
> new slides to show how they're related:
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/relating.pdf
> Relating Language to Perception, Action, and Feelings
>
> The material in Sections 3 and 4 covers issues we haven't discussed
> in Ontolog Forum. For background on catastrophe theoretic semantics,
> see the readings on the last slide. The following survey about
> René Thom is 36 pages long, but you can browse through it:
>
>
>http://www.hum.au.dk/semiotics/docs2/pdf/bundgaard_peer/rene_thoms_semiotics.pdf
>
> For Section 3 of the talk, I borrowed a lot from Chapter 3 of the
> book by Wolfgang Wildgen (with his permission). For more detail
> about some of the diagrams I used, see
>
> http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/homepages/wildgen/pdf/LexiconandBasicSyntax.pdf
>
> In later chapters of that book, Wildgen sketched out a way of using
> those ideas for interpreting narratives, but he and his colleagues
> did not implement them for computer processing. But Arun Majumdar
> (listed as coauthor of those slides) did implement a version, which
> has produced some very useful results. He contributed some of the
> slides (and *all* of the implementation) for Sections 3 and 4.
>
> John
>
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