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She then struck up a conversation with an Italian woman and it turned out she was herself half Italian and could speak Italian. Her whole manner and disposition changed instantly, becoming louder, more emotional and much more animated as she unconsciously switched from being English to being Italian. Generally, experiential knowledge is evaluated in terms of practical success or failure rather than truth. Can one actually ride the bike, play the piano or converse in Italian? Although of course, there will be degrees of ability in many of these activities.
This may be embodied as a document, a diagram, a data structure or information system. Once this has become totally defined the ‘meaning’ of the information is essentially fixed and this allows it to be populated or instantiated with items of data that would, by themselves, have no meaning at all. Put the other way round, data cannot exist without a pre-defined semantic and syntactic structure, which is information; and information is the articulation or explication of knowledge. Müller-Merbach (2006a) suggests information, knowledge and opinion, where information is stored knowledge, and opinion expresses subjective values.
2. ‘Critical realism’ as mentioned here is not the same as Bhaskar’s CR to be discussed later in the paper. 3. Although postmodernists argue that it is the theory that is deemed most powerful that is accepted as true. 4. Bhaskar was actually a student of Harré and there are still clear resonances of this. 5. These different varieties of knowledge will be discussed later. 6. It is coincidental that Machlup (1980, p. 47) also identifies 13 elements of knowing – I had not read his book at the time.