FREE online courses on Knowledge Management - Knowledge and its objectification

 

Knowledge can never be fully expressed, externalized, or objectified. Languages of written words have limits. Languages of graphics, of oral (verbal and non-verbal) representations, and various other forms of linguistic and extra-linguistic expressions can be used to supplement. But even then, what is being sought to achieve are mere stimulations for generating an empathetic environment in the reader or audience's mind, based on which the latter could construct her/his knowledge.

 

Knowledge involves a great deal of encoding or codification before it can be socialized, externalized or shared, which implies some form of language.

 

Language involves categories, concepts and conceptualization. Can there be knowledge without concepts and conceptualization? Alternately, can concepts exist without a language or linguistic framework, howsoever open that framework/system might be?

Can there be knowledge without articulability? What is the meaning of articulation?

Is it elaboration / expansion? Is it a clarification in terms of meaning, and other concepts/ideas/beliefs/values already known? Is it drawing out implications for action?

Is it a communication of ideas in a shared semi-shared universe of discourse?