"dead knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to knowledge that is outdated, irrelevant, or no longer relevant. For example: "The history books are full of dead knowledge, since what we now know about the events described in them changes so rapidly."
Instead of relying on canned, static, dead knowledge passed on from other symbol producers, he will be using his span of eighty or so years on this planet to live out every possibility of the human, prehuman, and even subhuman adventure".
"Students who cannot extrapolate from what they know and apply their knowledge in novel situations have only accumulated dead knowledge that won't be particularly useful for them".
-- The shipbuilders are long dead, their knowledge gone.
The glittering promise of science, offering life and miracles, and the nameless creature in the shadows, monster and miracle all in one, back from the dead, needing knowledge and love but able, in the end, only to destroy … it was Mary Shelley's gift to us, and we would be infinitely poorer without it.
"Dead Body of Knowledge," by Christine Montross (Op-Ed, March 27), was a welcome reminder of the value of human dissection.
Because Hindus were prohibited by their religion from cutting the dead body, their knowledge of anatomy was limited.
To have used the identities of dead children without the knowledge or consent of their parents astonishes me.
Doctors at Bristol Royal Infirmary who removed hundreds of organs from dead children without parental knowledge or consent had acted with "professional arrogance", according to an inquiry released today.
The committee also credited the Guardian's investigation into undercover policing, which recently revealed how the Met authorised officers to assume the identities of dead children, without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
We see sacrifices to the loas, spirits that mediate between human beings and the natural and metaphysical worlds, and hear of amarres, or spells, and the cult of the dead, but without more knowledge of this highly intricate religion, its deeper meanings are lost.
Unfortunately, there is a general lack of knowledge of dead wood on the forest floor, and this carbon pool is often neglected in carbon budget accounting.
