Knowledge, though engaged in the work of tallying objects, is itself a tallied object. Facts unfold as workable chains of partially linked, abstracted, or reduced subsets of objects that, in their novel configuration, are added to or folded back into the multitude of objects from which they came.
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Strictly speaking...knowledge (as a faithful, mirror-like reflection without surplus or deficit) does not exist.  Such "knowledge does not exist--what would it be?  There is only know-how.  In other words, there are crafts and trades.  Despite all claims to the contrary crafts hold the key to knowledge" (PF 218).  To know an object is to know how to connect with it, how to link it with other networks, how to repurpose it as a flexible widget in some novel situation.  This kind of knowledge is intimate, messy, hands-on, adaptive, and above all, real.

Adam S. Miller, Speculative Grace, pg. 76