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In Reply to: Gibberish… posted by David Aiken on September 1, 2005 at 02:49:37:
Mr. Aiken,While I appreciate the full response of yours and have benefitted from posts from you in the past, here you err.
It is very possible and indeed very sadly common for persons to have a (let's call it) one-sided view of life. Knowledge from NO ONE is balanced and even. I repeat: not a one. Experitse in one sub-specialty will not extend to another sub-specialty. Ever ask a heart specialist about lung cancer? (only an example). This is why I wanted posters to not neglect a 'balanced and basic' knowledge of audio when choosing their 'expert' or knowledgeable person.
Secondly and lastly, theoretical knowledge (where one can be an expert) and applied knowledge are not necessarily going to go hand in hand. I thought this observation was a 'given'; if it's not, then you need to look around you, and let that Look include the suppression of "gibberish' from others' posts.
Respect,
Guy
Follow Ups:
. . . don't take the bait David . . .I don't (seem to) understand todays
lesson in triviality (either) .Respectfully.
Mike
I didn't disagree with the 'balanced' part of your criteria and your points there are good. Nor did I disagree that theoretical and practical knowledge don't necessarily go hand in hand - what I said was that someone with a good understanding of a practical field had to have both.My first point was simply that really understanding the basics is actually quite an advanced stage - a lot of things have to have 'clicked together' for someone to have that kind of understanding and that someone who genuinely does understand the basics always, in my experience, has a fair bit of expertise.
My second point was that you did say 'most knowledgeable' and then included an instruction to ignore advanced knowledge/expertise. Even if I didn't think that would exclude those who really understand the basics, as explained above, any exclusion or disregarding of those with a higher level of knowledge or expertise simply has to exclude the person with the most knowledge or expertise.
It's simply those 2 points that make your original request unanswerable and somewhat meaningless. If what you're looking for is an identification of those who are best capable of describing and explaining the basics in a way which makes in intelligible for the reader with no knowledge, then you're better of asking for that. What you really need to do is to say what abilities/knowledge you're looking for in the person without specifying exclusions because it's all too easy to end up excluding the people you are looking for simply because the exclusions were poorly worded.
And as for 'knowledge about knowledge', a few years of studying philosophy many years ago including a fair bit of epistemology - the study of the concept of knowledge - has left me with enough knowledge about knowledge to know it's a very slippery topic.
Glad you've found at least some of my posts helpful, even if my previous one here wasn't.
David Aiken
NT
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