by socrates44San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Oct 2013 1,001 Views 11 comments
Experience and Knowledge
words are like a map
and experience is the territory
a map can only give knowledge
"about" the territory
it can never give knowledge
"of" the territory
this can only be obtained
through direct experience
and experience is the territory
a map can only give knowledge
"about" the territory
it can never give knowledge
"of" the territory
this can only be obtained
through direct experience
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Posted: Oct 2013
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Comments (11)
Deep and thought provoking --well done you !
Warm regards -F
Thanks for your appreciation of this philosophical piece.
It is related to your comment concerning knowledge and experience that you posted for my previous piece: "Wisdom and Knowledge".
Have a good day!
Thank you for your kind comment.
Keep Well!
Words can be warnings so you can be cautious following your map to gain experience.?
I hope I can offer some explanation to ease your puzzlement.
From the information posted in your profile, I see you enjoy walking and Nature. You refer to the trees and wild animals. I assume this also refers to the vegetation, natural scenery, layout of the land, streams, lakes, etc. Suppose you wanted to visit a new "Nature" area and someone got a map of it, or drew one, and gave it to you. Then sometime later, you visited the area. You observed a lot of interesting details that were not shown on the map and actually experienced the sensations, feelings and emotions generated by Nature due to your presence in the place. Do you think you could have such an experience from viewing and studying the map only?
This is what the term "about" versus the term "of" indicates.
This is the message of my piece of writing. Also, you may have heard older folks say that highly educated persons have a lot of "book sense" but not much "common sense". My good friend Serenity captured it very nicely in her comment on my piece "Wisdom and Knowledge":
"one may have knowledge...but life's experiences provide much wisdom and on occasion can enhance it".
I agree with you that words can be warnings (among other things)but in this piece, I was mainly looking at words as being a source of knowledge per se.
I hope this explanation is useful in regard to conveying my intended meaning of "Experience and Knowledge".
Thank you for your comment. Have a nice day!
Thanks for your comment.
I am happy to know you enjoyed the poem and the explanation. I am glad I posted the explanation to clarify the distinction between the terms. Have a nice day!
I am happy you see the distinction between the terms. I like your reference to "bookworm". I think you may find the following article interesting:
It refers to "The Intellectual Imbecile."
Have a nice day!
I can remember my main theme I tried to put in my sons minds and that was I did not mind what they did in life- be it road sweeper or high flyer or whatever as long ad they were good people to those around them.
We need all kinds of people and abilities in this life or what could we strive for or to eliminate or anything really.
We would all be robots without different thinking. Robots only act on what they take in as yet
Have a lovely day.