Knowledge is competence spanning truth, efficiency, justice, and beauty

Evidence

But what is meant by the term knowledge is not only a set of denotative statements, far from it. It also includes notions of “knowhow,” “knowing how to live,” “how to listen” [savoir-faire, savoirvivre, savoir-ecouter] , etc. Knowledge, then, is a question of competence that goes beyond the simple determination and application of the criterion of truth, extending to the determination and application of criteria of efficiency (technical qualification), of justice and/ or happiness (ethical wisdom), of the beauty of a sound or color (auditory and visual sensibility), etc. Understood in this way, knowledge is what makes someone capable of forming “good” denotative utterances, but also “good” prescriptive and “good” evaluative utterances. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 185

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lyotard’s broad definition of knowledge as multiple competences — the load-bearing conceptual basis for his later critique of scientific legitimation.
• XREF: connects to: Even unseen protected treasures carry value through the knowledge they exist — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 588