shared knowledge
Description
also: shared meanings
Fosnot claims that conceptual structures that constitute meanings or knowledge are not something that exists in the ether and can be "shared" with two different minds (see: problem of other minds) but instead they are constructs that each user has to build up for him- or herself. (pg. 4)
Quotes
- If two people share a room, there is one room and both live in it. If they share a bowl of cherries, none of the cherries is eaten by both persons.
- For it is one thing to assert that, as far as one’s experience goes, the meaning others attribute to a word seems to be compatible with one’s own, but quite another to assume that it has to be the same.