Conceptual structures and systematization

Knowledge is the subjectively and objectively sufficiently based certainty of the existence of a fact or a state of a case, a circumstance. Knowledge is not transferable. It can only be gained by a person's own consideration and reflection. What struck me as possibly true in this wording was the statement Knowledge is not transferable. Clearly, this definition holds for the so called personal knowledge as against what had been termed social knowledge. J. Shrejder has given us (in [22], based on [17]) further distinctions, namely the knowledge held by a social group and the knowledge belonging to the whole of society. Iffor these latter two cases the above definition should hold true it needs to be extended to comprise (a) all the members of a group and (b) the whole of mankind which means that knowledge must then be gained in the same way and correspondingly by each member of a group or by everybody living through consideration and reflection. And this is not such an easy thing as whenever somebody has acquired some knowledge, he or she possesses and defends it and is usually not very open for any changes of this possession.