Knowledge is paradigmatic and never exists as bare data

Evidence

Information and knowledge are generally taken as identical and synonymous. It is assumed that reality consists of data or bits of information and this information is, in principle, recordable and storable. Therefore, it is also possible, in principle, for a receiver to know everything or at least to have access to all knowledge. But this primitive epistemology, admittedly primitively described, will not do the intellectual work or carry the argumentative freight heaped upon it. Knowledge is, after all, paradigmatic. It is not given in experience as data. There is no such thing as “information” about the world devoid of conceptual systems that create and define the world in the act of discovering it. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 744

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines knowledge as paradigmatic rather than data-like, distinguishing it sharply from information.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 744
• XREF: connects to: Monopoly over knowledge means controlling the paradigm, not just data — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 743; No genuine knowledge can be derived from a state of ignorance — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1077; Knowledge requires mental reflection on existence rather than passive sensory impressions — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 693 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018
• Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy #expands (0.80)
• Knowledge requires mental reflection on existence rather than passive sensory impressions #corroborates (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 693
• Plato argues that real knowledge derives from concepts rather than sensory perception #corroborates (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 674
• Understanding arises only from perceiving causal links among facts, not from the facts themselves #corroborates (0.70) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 471
• No genuine knowledge can be derived from a state of ignorance #contradicts (0.60) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1077
• Intellectual work must produce new knowledges rather than recirculate known conclusions #expands (0.60)
• Reflective thinking connects known facts to unknown conclusions through inferences #corroborates (0.55) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 761
• Knowledge lives in conversation, with science as one valued strand #corroborates (0.50) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 368
• Culture as constitutive of practice retains contingency and is never finally determined #corroborates (0.50)