Comments on: Expertise and reality http://walt.lishost.org/2011/05/expertise-and-reality/ The library voice of the radical middle. Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2011/05/expertise-and-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-62284 walt Wed, 18 May 2011 14:44:18 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=3164#comment-62284 Well said.

]]> By: Mark http://walt.lishost.org/2011/05/expertise-and-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-62270 Mark Wed, 18 May 2011 11:36:59 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=3164#comment-62270 I have pretty much given up on the word (and concept I suppose of) “expert.” I no longer, if I ever did, know what it is supposed to mean. That is, I understand what it is *supposed* to mean but feel that being expert on any topic of even little merit is not possible, as you say above.

Part of it is our “cult of the expert” which arose as early as the 1950s, part of it is our media and how it “works,” part the decentering of authority, and part my growing view of “knowledge”(philosophically) and the growth of what can be known and how it can be known, whether via published literature or otherwise.

The word still slips from my tongue on occasion but I am trying to eradicate it, at least as it applies to any individual.

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