How about just, knowledge does not imply wisdom, but wisdom does imply knowledge? (Let's just drop the "necessarily").

All I know is I don't know... The condensed version of Socrates...

What ever you say.

But in the defence of the 'necessarily' sometimes knowledge may be able to imply wisdom?
At least a form of wisdom or rout toward it.

What ever you say.

But in the defence of the 'necessarily' sometimes knowledge may be able to imply wisdom?
At least a form of wisdom or rout toward it.

If P does not imply Q, P cannot sometimes imply Q. Either P implies Q or it does not. Just because sometimes P is true, and Q is also true does not mean that P ever implies Q. P cannot sometimes imply Q, and sometimes not imply Q. "Imply" does not work that way.

Being a dog does not imply being a brown animal: so even if some dogs also happen to be brown animals, it is still true that being a dog does not imply being a brown animal. Similarly, even if some knowledge happens also to be wisdom that does not mean that knowledge ever implies wisdom. So, there is no defense of knowledge implying wisdom.

Therefore, to say that P does not necessarily imply Q, simply means that P does not imply Q. Period.

Hi Fido,

Nice to meet you.

"All I know is, I don't know". I absolutely agree, but, how do I know that I don't know, if I can't know for sure that I know anything, for sure?

Is not "One man's wisdom, another man's folly"?

Thank you Fido, and journey well.

Mark...

Wisdom is knowing the limits of one's knowledge... No one knows nothing... Much, perhaps most of our essential knowledge is encoded in our genes and onco genes... But of what we learn, we must always be suspect... It is always better to feign ignorance than to lose ones head for knowing too much...Worse are the disasters of pretending to knowledge one does not have, and people live their lives on faith, and what is that but a tower of certainty built without foundation...

If I know how to tie a tie, what does that mean? That I simply know the act of tying two pieces of cloth together? Is there some inherent meaning in knowing something? What happens after knowing?

Hi Fido,

Proverbs - First gain knowledge, then wisdom, then understanding. Knowledge is the foundation of wisdom, and wisdom - understanding. Do you agree?

Thank you Fido, and prosper splendidly.

Mark...

I can look at some one like Abraham Lincoln who showed evidennce of understanding, which was wisdom long before he became educated in any sense of the word, and since he was mostly autodidactic, he must have possessed some sense of the value of education without having education, so the line between understanding and wisdom is no line at all, but without much knowledge it is difficult to be very wise... All wise conclusion rest on a certain body of knowledge, and yet all understanding, as wisdom, employs whatever knowledge is possessed to the utmost...You cannot teach genius, but genius can be nurtured...Knowledge nurtures understanding and wisdom...You cannot teach insight, but knowledge nurtures insight...You can give people knowledge but the love of it cannot be taught...

As an Islamic philosopher said: trying to educate a worthless person is like throwing pebbles at a dome....Yet our whole society, once geared to hereditary political power, now clings to hereditary wealth which tries for the sake of wealth and power to educate the worthless... Since they cannot do this impossible thing, they deny the poor a decent education so that the poor cannot excel to their proper place...It does not work because luxury starves youth of understanding as much as poverty feeds resentment...Neither lack of understanding nor resentment are signs of a healthy society...