Re: weather/climate::individual/social
James Robert Martin (jmartin who-is-at extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:39:54 +1000 (EST)
Gordon asks whether knowledge has the same meaning at different depths of
focus. The answer to this probably depends on whether we think there are
different kinds of knowledge - mundane vs esoteric, common sense vs
uncommon sense - or whatever metaphors we'd use. I expect that whenever
our lenses involve technolgoy that augments everyday perception, a new
kind of language comes along, which uses nominalisation to construct a new
kind of discourse - and so an/other kind of knowledge. But is it another
order of knowledge? By agumenting technology, I'd include any kind of
writing.
Jim Martin