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The dual nature of knowledge, of being both subjective and objective, forms the basis of knowledge sharing. To be sure, knowledge cannot be shared as knowledge without undergoing en route transformations. Knowledge offered by one becomes information for the other, and has to be reconstructed as the other's knowledge. What you have here is not two pieces of identical knowledge, but rather two different interpretations and reconstructions. The degree of their hypothetical congruence depends on the degree to which the two persons have similar frames of mind, belief and value systems, and so on.

 

Sharing of knowledge is a moment in the development of knowledge itself, and conversely, this sharing also constitutes a necessary moment in the general social intercourse and practice. Communities of practice are as much groups that share knowledge as groups that help in knowledge generation.

 

All knowledge is live, tacit knowledge. What some people call as explicit knowledge is nothing but another name for information, a piece of objectified information on what might have constituted somebody else's knowledge earlier and not knowledge per se, from the standpoint of the current subject. The processes of knowledge production, sharing and application form an interwoven cycle of cycles.