John Wilkins - Knowledge, Understanding & Epistemic Communities

John sees knowledge as a relationship between the knower, the things known and the epistemic community - similarly, understanding.
Clifford Stoll paraphrasing Frank Zappa - "Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, and understanding is not wisdom."

To what extent is knowledge or understanding contextualized by containing communities, technologies, environment, & the affordances it gives us as a community?

What is the relationship between knowledge & understanding? Can we understand the phenomenon of understanding?

Relatedly, see John's '50 words for snow, or conceptual confusion' sequence of posts :
1. Conceptual confusion: https://evolvingthoughts.net/2017/09/11/50-words-for-snow-or-conceptual-confusion/
2. The economics of cultural categories: https://evolvingthoughts.net/2017/09/24/50-words-for-snow-2-or-the-economics-of-cultural-categories/
3. What are phenomena?: https://evolvingthoughts.net/2017/09/27/50-words-for-snow-3-what-are-phenomena/
4. What counts as sociocultural?: https://evolvingthoughts.net/2017/10/03/50-words-for-snow-addendum-3a-or-what-counts-as-sociocultural/
5. Species: https://evolvingthoughts.net/2017/10/15/50-words-for-snow-4-species/
6. Constructing phenomena: https://evolvingthoughts.net/2017/12/11/50-words-for-snow-constructing-phenomena/
7. Explanations and phenomena: https://evolvingthoughts.net/2017/12/18/50-words-for-snow-6-explanations-and-phenomena/

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More on understanding understanding : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3RzZhCl62Y&list=PL-7qI6NZpO3vgq3Bkz1A1agthYXebhnxP

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