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wisdom

vr.tr.wisdom · INF.KNW

Let an agent explain wisdom as a philosophical, religious and psychological concept with attribution, relay its treatment across traditions, describe the DIKW model and its critiques, and distinguish wisdom from knowledge and intelligence.

Thing Registry Information and virtual systems

Research draft, second pass

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain wisdom as a philosophical, religious and psychological concept with attribution, relay its treatment across traditions, describe the DIKW model and its critiques, and distinguish wisdom from knowledge and intelligence.

The capacity to judge and act well through deep understanding, experience and insight, valued as a virtue in philosophy and religion, from Greek sophia and phronesis and Chinese zhi, to Buddhist prajna and jnana in Indian thought, Holy Wisdom in Christian theology, and the Hebrew wisdom literature, and studied in psychology as a quality of balanced judgement; in information science wisdom sits at the top of the DIKW pyramid above data, information and knowledge, and everyday forms include proverbs and tile wisdom.

What it is for: Not applicable; a concept and virtue.

It can be explain the concept; relay traditions; describe the DIKW model; distinguish from knowledge.

Distinguishing features

Judgement and insight

Ethical dimension

Cross-tradition virtue

Apex of DIKW

What it looks like

Not a visible object; a quality of judgement.

How it is recognised

Deep understanding and good judgement

Sophia, phronesis, zhi, prajna, jnana, Holy Wisdom, DIKW wisdom, proverbial wisdom

Knowledge is justified information; intelligence is cognitive ability; cleverness lacks the ethical dimension

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

knowledge

is a kind of - in registry terms

understanding

sits atop - in information science

DIKW pyramid

is a - in ethics

virtue

In practice

Families and kinds

philosophical wisdom: sophia and phronesis

Confucian and Chinese zhi

Buddhist prajna and Hindu jnana

Holy Wisdom and Christian theology of wisdom

Hebrew and Islamic wisdom literature

psychological models of wisdom

wisdom in the DIKW pyramid

folk wisdom, proverbs and tile wisdom

Standards and regulation

No regulation; a concept

Failure modes and hazards

Presenting one tradition as the definition

Overstating psychological measures

Treating the DIKW model as settled

Also called

tile wisdomDIKW Pyramidzhijñāna and prajñāHoly Wisdomwisdom in Buddhism

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.wisdom-2

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What wisdom is.

Attribution.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is wisdom, and how does it differ from knowledge, intelligence and cleverness? definition
  2. Is the question about wisdom in general, a specific tradition or the DIKW model? boundary

Traditions

Traditions.

Traditions

Traditions.

  1. How do Greek, Chinese, Indian, Buddhist, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic traditions understand wisdom, in their own terms? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific tradition? action
Science Psychology and information science.

Attribution.

Psychology

Psychology of wisdom.

Psychology

Psychology.

  1. What do psychological models such as the Berlin paradigm say about wisdom, with findings attributed? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

DIKW

DIKW pyramid.

DIKW

DIKW.

  1. What is the DIKW pyramid, and what critiques of it exist, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits DIKW pyramid? action
Practice Practice.

Practice.

Cultivation

Cultivating wisdom.

Cultivation

Cultivation.

  1. How do traditions and research suggest wisdom can be cultivated? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Folk

Folk wisdom.

Folk

Folk.

  1. What are proverbs, wisdom literature and tile wisdom, and how do they transmit judgement? provenance
  2. Which entry fits proverb? action
Context History and culture.

Context.

History

History of ideas.

History

History.

  1. How has the idea of wisdom developed from Solomon and Socrates to modern thought? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of philosophy? action

Culture

Culture.

Culture

Culture.

  1. How is wisdom personified and represented, from Athena and Sophia to Hagia Sophia? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Holy Wisdom? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should phronesis and prajna be separate primary entries?
  • How should philosophical and religious sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming traditions and a decorative genre; should they be split off?