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Knowledge is a key focus area in the emerging autonomic paradigm. The cognitive control loop inside an autonomic element revolves around the knowledge base built within the element. But the concept sounds familiar. For years now, knowledge epistemology and, in specific, the knowledge management domain have been focusing on the knowledge acquisition, dissemination and sharing mechanisms inside the big picture of knowledge-intensive organizations. This paper argues that the two domains bear significant resemblances and attempts to pinpoint them by forming the necessary analogies.