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Study on the Concept of "Knowledge" and Its Conceptual Meanings
Received date: 2012-12-28
Revised date: 2013-03-01
Online published: 2013-03-20
Starting from a brief investigation of the features and conceptual meanings of knowledge, this paper concludes that the bifurcate orientation of knowledge study, which differentiates"philosophical properties of knowledge" from "practical features of knowledge", determines that its conceptual meanings are widely different and its definitions are multitude. Based on the above logic, it puts forward a methodology of knowledge concept research,whereby a "Concept-Interpretation and Meaning-Verification Approach" is used to delineate the conceptual meanings of knowledge into the following three perspectives. Firstly, from the view of its origin and creation, knowledge is an intellectual process, a state of the mind and "the tradition". Secondly, from the perspective of the semantic ecology of knowledge and its logical hierarchy, knowledge is a key link and constituent in the continuum of data-information-knowledge judging from. Thirdly, from an administrative point of view, knowledge is a substance with dual characteristics of tangible property and intangible potential value viewing. Finally, this paper applies the "Semantic-Logical Coordinates" to clustering a large amount of existing definitions from knowledge literature, respectively classifies two groups of knowledge definitions under two mutually supplementary categories of "Human-centered Subjective Knowledge Definition" and "External-oriented Objective Knowledge Definition", and analyzes the theoretical interpretation of the bifurcate phenomena according to the essential properties of knowledge.
Zhang Xinhua , Zhang Fei . Study on the Concept of "Knowledge" and Its Conceptual Meanings[J]. Library and Information Service, 2013 , 57(06) : 49 -58 . DOI: 10.7536/j.issn.0252-3116.2013.06.009
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