Extended Thing Knowledge

Extended Thing Knowledge

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ...

During the colonial period in Kenya there were three Kikuyu men Kioi, Githogori and Kaminju who thought that they knew everything. They decided to go to adult education classes to learn English. When they went to the school they carried with them books and pencils and put them on a table. When the tutor came he asked them, "Who put these items here?" They said in the Kikuyu language ni ithuii a...

Of tacit knowledge, texts and thing-based learning (TBL).

Practical knowledge has two dimensions- a visible, codified component that resembles the tip of an iceberg. The larger but crucial tacit component which lies submerged consists of values, procedures and tricks of the trade and cannot be easily documented or codified. Undergraduate science students were given an opportunity to explore this component through an inquiry-based course.

A Little Bit of Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing

2352-6734/ © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Available online 18 October 2016 cross small, cross-sectional samples. Ten studies showed insignificant effects between experience and the likelihood of disengagement, seven showed a negative relationship, two had mixed findings, and three revealed a positive relationship. None of the studies presented or reported findings of curvilinear resu...

The sure-thing principle and independence of irrelevant knowledge

Savage (1954) introduced the sure-thing principle in terms of the dependence of decisions on knowledge, but gave up on formalizing it in epistemic terms for lack of a formal definition of knowledge. Using simple models of knowledge, we examine the sure-thing principle, presenting two ways to capture it. One is in terms of the union of future events, for which we reserve the original name—the su...