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RE: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed)
Subject:RE: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed) From:Maggie Secara <MSecara -at- bizbuyer -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:34:43 -0800
And at that point, even memorizing dates becomes less irrelevent. To know
two things happened in the same year may be to understand the relationship
between them, or to marvel at their lack of connection, or draw some other
conclusion.
1492, Columbus landed in the Americas.
1492, the Jews were expelled from Spain.
The more you know, the more you know.
Maggie Secara
The Technical Writer
BizBuyer.com
Santa Monica, CA
(310) 883-6446
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend,
an
acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin Jones
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From: Ymorrigu -at- aol -dot- com [mailto:Ymorrigu -at- aol -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:26 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed)
>>Reading your post, I suddenly conceived an argument >>for knowledge:
>>what is valuable is not the information itself, but >>the links that
>>your mind makes between the pieces of information.
Now there's a good argument. I would add that the ability to process the
information into something valuable is also a necessary part of the
equation.
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