Nescience, Nichtwissen and Open Space

Harrison Owen hhowen at comcast.net
Sun Jan 9 08:55:09 PST 2005


Some little time back I shared a request that arrived in my Inbox to write
something about Nescience. I confessed to total ignorance, but ignorance has
never deterred me in the past - and so I took a leap. It turned out that
Nescience was a literal translation of the German "Nichtwissen," which might
also be rendered "ignorance." But it also turned out that none of those
translations really got to the heart of the matter, or at least what I think
is the heart of the matter. Of course, I could be dead wrong. But right or
wrong, I have had a marvelous time exploring what I think may be some rather
new perspectives on Open Space and the ways in which Open Space may
contribute to our understanding of this wonderful new fad - Knowledge
Management. I would love to hear any thoughts or comments you might have.
The piece is rather too long to post here (20+ pages) so I have placed the
full document on Openspaceworld.com

 http://www.openspaceworld.com/Opening%20Space%20for%20The%20Question.htm 

If you have some editorial suggestions (which I welcome) you might send them
directly to me at hhowen at comcast.net However, if your onion is tickled
(weird Americanism for "curiosity aroused") you might share your
reflection/thoughts/comments right here on OSLIST. I suppose this could
become rather cumbersome, but if you quoted from the paper so that others
might know the context, maybe it will all work. 

Harrison

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