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Erratic behavior and erratic reasoning often have a pejorative sense; between the Wandering Jew, named Aasvero or Ahasverus, and the erratic thought we find the same kind of punishment. «Errare humanum est» is also part of common sense: human behavior is considered erratic by nature. Kant describes man with a significant metaphor: he is a log. The error has however a third categorization: it is no longer a fault or a fatality, but also functionality. To philosophers or travelers, error and wander became synonymous with independence, coherence and method. In areas as different as critical edition, literary historiography or creative writing, mistake is considered a strategy for a good «methodology», word that means, etymologically, a knowledge (-logos) accomplished by (meta-) the way (-odos-). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an interdisciplinary reflection on the relationship between social network analysis, namely egonetworks, and the funds of knowledge of researchers and teachers of higher education. It is argued that the creation of knowledge and its dissemination can be conceived as and through translation processes. These processes exist through and by means of the funds of knowledge, which can be measured and described, in its structure and content, through personal knowledge networks. Egonetworks can, thus, be defined as epistemic conduits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]