Wisdom and the Context of Knowledge: Knowing that One Doesn’t Know

By Jack (John) A. Meacham. 1983

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Towards Open World Object Detection (2021, background): “Research in developmental psychology [41, 36] ﬁnds out that the ability to identify what one doesn’t know, is key in captivating curiosity.”
A Process View of Wisdom (2008, background): “Second, wisdom is defined as positive results of human development (Arlin 1990; Erikson 1982; Erikson et al. 1986; Kramer 1990, 2000; Labouvie-Vief 1990, 2000; Meacham 1983; Orwoll and Perlmutter 1990; Pascual-Leone 1990), either as the end-state of psychosocial development, or capacities that eme”
Conceptions of Wisdom among Taiwanese Chinese (2001, background): “For some, wisdom is validated actions (Assmann, 1994), optimum forms of behaviors (Birren & Fisher, 1990), action-guiding judgments (Kekes, 1983), and brilliant applications of knowledge to real-life contexts (Meacham, 1983).”
The Wisdom Development Scale: Translating the Conceptual to the Concrete (2006, background): “... conceptual treatments of wisdom as a multidimensional construct, examining its: problemfinding attributes (Arlin,1990); distinction from intelligence (Clayton, 1982); combination of cognition and affect (Blanchard-Fields, Brannan & Camp, 1987; Csikszentmihalyi & Rathunde, 1990, Labouvie-Vief, 19”