Knowledge could be describe as all things you can know. Not all things know are created equal. More importantly you can work to collect and process know things to create more widly applicable known things.

Neil Fleming categorized these concepts into four categories.

• Data
• Information
• Knowledge
• Wisdom

The idea is that above being collections of lower tier knowledge each collects comes with context, synergy and understanding making them more effective the the previous tier.

Data by its self is not very helpful to solving and doing anything with. To make is useful we need to collect it. However, even collections of data may not be useful. It is not until we add context and relationships to the data does it become information.

Following this it is also apparent that knowledge is more then simply the collection of knowledge but the addition of patterners and relationships which makes anything knowledge.

Finally wisdom is more then a collection of patterns and knowledge. It is the understanding of the fundamental principles which make the patterns possible.

Assumable above wisdom there is reality or truth, but humans probably cannot ever understand truth as the relationships between all things might be a bit much for us.