Philosophy is confusing
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Rantings about knowledge.
There are two interconnected but different things: information and knowledge. Information can be measured, it is rational, it is a part of the science. Knowledge can be loosely defined as something like “useful information”. It can not be measured out of context, no metric can be defined on a knowledge. However, knowledge is important, because unlike information it is what we use and value.
So there is a part of philosophy called epistemology, that claims to help us here. So far no usable results were obtained, but anyway it is fun and it is interesting to look at what clever people can invent in this field.
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