COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE:
DOES IT REQUIRE ANY VALIDATION AT
ALL?
(draft)
p. k. Sasidharan
Knowledge Problematic and its wider context:
‘What is knowledge?’, ‘What is the
method of deciding truth of knowledge?’, and “what is the procedure for realising
liberative potential of knowledge’? ‘Can knowledge be experienced and
transmitted?’ These are some of the questions that seem to have been troubling
philosophers, scientists, seers, and intellectuals of all times and
civilisations. Definitions and explanations for the status of true/valid
knowledge are very characteristic to the disciplines of philosophy and science,
and yet, the knowledge-debate remains to be unending. Ideological,
institutional, ethnic, cultural, religious, affiliation and identity of
knowledge forms are some of the critical issues being debated in the
contemporary intellectual and socio-political domains. Various theories and
perceptions of knowledge are also seen to be operating in collision with some
structures of power in different periods of time history. Purity and
disciplinary monopoly on the questions of nature, source, ambiance, authority,
meaning, etc., of knowledge, are no longer found workable ideals.
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