LETTERS from KJ John | Knowledge and ignorance I have a favourite definition for knowledge. It allows one to know the difference between wrong and right, and also enables one to make choices about truth matters. But, if we have lots of information about a subject but cannot apply it to solve real problems, then we do not have real knowledge; just information or academic knowledge about the subject matter. Such lack of knowledge is ‘ignorance’. The root word for knowledge in Greek is ‘gnosis.’ The absence of knowledge is ignosis or, in English, it is ‘ignorance’. Recently I had to ascribe to a friend his misinformation about the ‘Allah’ word as ‘ignorance’. Both from the etymology of the root word, or from the biblical point of view, his information about the ‘Allah’ word was ‘ignosis.’ We agreed to disagree agreeably about that subject. Read more here: malaysiakini/columns/261328
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:53:32 +0000
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