Mapping the aliran of the academic discipline of entrepreneurship: A ...

1.2.1.07 In this dissertation I am taking the meanings to be that connaissance relates
more towards particular disciplines and savoir is used in a broader sense, without the
constraints of those disciplines. To use slang etymology, savoir could be seen as the
‘savvy’ of the entrepreneur, as compared to the formalized knowledge of the discipline of
entrepreneurship that purports to underpin and explain what it is that entrepreneurs do. It is
interesting that Wikipedia mentions that epistemology as being solely applicable to
connaissance knowledge in English. This position in some ways provides an initial clue to
delineating between the understandings of, or approaches to, knowledge. It also provides a
possible line of differentiation between a discourse and a discipline. This differentiation is
elaborated on in more detail in the next section on episteme.
1.2.2 Episteme
1.2.2.00 This section defines the term episteme, its relationship to connaissance
knowledges and delineates its difference from the term epistemology. Bonjour’s [1998]
term epistemic justification is introduced as the means by which connaissance knowledge
is permitted into the discipline.
1.2.2.01 Epistemology, as a theory of knowledge, requires mechanics for application
of such theor y, Foucault [1980] provides such an apparatus through his use of the term
episteme.
I would define the episteme retrospectively as the strategic apparatus which
permits of separating out from among all the statements which are possible those
that will be acceptable within, I won’t say a scientific theory, but a field of
scientificity, and which it is possible to say are true or false. The episteme is the
‘apparatus’ which makes possible the separation, not of the true from the false, but
of what may from what may not be characterised as scientific [p197].
1.2.2.02 It could be said that the episteme creates or defines the outline of
connaissances, as ‘history of knowledges’ as to what is acceptable within that history. The
term epistemic justification [Bonjour, 1998] is used to define what is eligible for inclusion
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