Is knowledge a natural kind that science could discover — or a folk concept we should deflate?

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Three pages in 1963 reshaped what philosophers mean by knowledge — the Gettier paper is philosophy's shortest earthquake Knowledge graphs and ontologies: can machine-readable knowledge capture what humans actually know? Can there be knowledge without a knower — in books or databases? Nonaka vs Davenport: competing theories of how organizations actually create and use knowledge The pianist understands the music in her hands but cannot say it in words A public announcement creates common knowledge — what changes when the secret is finally out? SECI model: how does tacit knowledge become explicit in organizations — and can it really convert? Pragmatism asks whether a belief is true simply because it works — is that knowledge or convenience? Cognitive science treats knowledge as stored representations — does that survive connectionist brains? Why did Plato rank knowledge above true belief — what makes it more valuable?