The Way We Know

This web site is dedicated to knowledge and trying to understand the way we, as human beings, know things.

It may be interesting to take a look at how the site is organised, about the site, because this is also about knowledge. The link at the top of this page will take you there.

The main menu on the left contains links to the major sub components of the site. Each of these concern knowledge but consider a different aspect of knowledge.

There is little information on the site at present but the site will continuously evolve and develop. So please take a look from time to time, or not, as it pleases you. The last major addition to the site is contained within the application menu tab. This was added in July 2007 and some updates to other parts of the site were added in March 2009. The look of the site has also been changed now (in March 2009) but it will probably evolve again. The logo or title at the top of each page is fairly new but probably not permanent. It means something to me but probably something different to you, depending on what you know.

One problem with knowledge is its meaning. For thousands of years, Philosophers have been attempting to pin down a precise definition for knowledge. Whilst they may not have succeeded, they were using a common understanding of what knowledge, human knowledge, actually was. In relatively recent times, with concepts like 'knowledge management' and people inventing other terms such as 'just in time knowledge', the meaning of knowledge is becoming so broad as to cover almost anything. A term that means anything at all is not very useful. This web site will attempt to use definition(s) for knowledge that at least make an attempt to constrain its meaning so that it remains a useful term to use. There is nothing at all wrong with 'knowledge management' if people understand what knowledge means and what management means.

Knowledge is worth thinking about.