RE: Information, Data, taxonomy of knowing

["Vic Forte" <vic@vicf.com>]

> I found a nice paper on the subject at
> http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm which makes use of Dr.
> Ackoff's definitions.
>

This entire taxonomy misses a very important kind of knowledge. All the
forms of knowledge listed are mediated, or indirect sorts of knowledge. The
kind that typically comes about though study. What is missed here is non
mediated or direct knowledge.

For example - let us take wine;

According to this list if you study wine, absorb all the symbols and words
relating to wine, organise these symbols and evaluate them mentally, you
will know wine.

To drink a glass of wine is to have direct knowledge of wine in a way that
is different from all of these ways listed.

I believe it is important to appreciate direct knowledge. And not only from
a wine drinking perspective.