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Wisdom.

Wisdom is moral knowledge, that is, wisdom is a doctrinal system which has been used in a beneficial way. Please understand: I am by no means trained in moral philosophy, so my statements on the subject of wisdom and morality will be informal and naive. For the purposes of this paper, fortunately, I do not need to define morality precisely. I merely posit the existence of some morally elevated form of knowledge, which I call wisdom.

To summarise my definitions: entropy is synonymous with disorder. Given syntactic context, entropy is information. Given partial certainty about semantics, information becomes doctrine. With some autonomous use, doctrine becomes knowledge. With some morality, knowledge becomes wisdom.



Clark Thomborson
Fri Oct 3 14:28:46 NZST 1997