Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion of understanding. It’s like being able to reel off the locations in a baseball field — first base, second base, third base, home plate, left field, right field, center field, pitcher’s mound — without having the slightest clue as to how they function in a game. You can talk the talk, but you can’t walk the walk.

Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion of understanding. It’s like being able to reel off the locations in a baseball field — first base, second base, third base, home plate, left field, right field, center field, pitcher’s mound — without having the slightest clue as to how they function in a game. You can talk the talk, but you can’t walk the walk.

– Stanley Fish –

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