Look up: Knowledge

1. Knowledge
   Knowledge is practical understanding.
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2. Knowledge
   Loosely speaking, the sum total of the representations of the world contained in the mind, on all subjects (including our own selves) and involving all memory types. But avoid specific use of this term in technical arguments in favour of the more precise propositional knowledge (or as appropriate).
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3. knowledge
   Awareness of or familiarity with something or someone, or confidence in the accuracy of a fact or other information. Knowledge is often defined as justified true belief, although philosophers...
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4. knowledge
   (artificial intelligence, information science) The objects, concepts and relationships that are assumed to exist in some area of interest. A collection of knowledge, represented using some knowledge representation language is known as a knowledge base and a program for extending and/or querying a knowledge base is a knowledge-based system. Knowled…
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5. knowledge
   in artificial intelligence, information used by experts to solve problems; 2)facts, beliefs and heuristic rules; 3)objects, assertions and definitions, concepts, relations, theorems and rewriting rules, performance knowledge, heuristic rules, metaknowledge Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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6. Knowledge
   Knowl"edge noun [ Middle English knowlage , knowlege , knowleche , knawleche . The last part is the Icelandic suffix -leikr , forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icelandic leikr game, play, sport, akin to Anglo-Saxon lāc , Goth. laiks dance. See Know , and confer Lake , intransitive verb , …
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7. Knowledge
   Knowl"edge transitive verb To acknowledge. [ Obsolete] "Sinners which knowledge their sins." Tyndale.
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8. knowledge
   1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition. "Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions." (Locke) ... 2. That which is or may be known; the object of an act of k …
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9. Knowledge
   `Knowledge` is defined (Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as `justified tru...
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10. Knowledge
    `Knowledge` is defined (Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as `justified tru...
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11. Knowledge
    • (v. i.) That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition. • (v. i.) The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition. • (v. i.) That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; pr...
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12. knowledge
    (from the article `language`) ...transmission of the written and spoken word all over the globe, together with the rapid translation services now available between the major ... The propositional sense of knowing (i.e., knowing that something or other is the case), rather than the operational sense of knowing (i.e., knowing ... ...by...
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13. knowledge
    knowledge 1. Acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things. 2. Acquaintance or familiarity gained by sight, experience, or report. 3. The fact or state of knowing; the perception of fact or truth; clear and certain mental apprehension. 4. Awareness, as of a fact or circumstan...
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14. knowledge
    the final goal of the understanding in combining intuitions and concepts. If they are pure, the knowledge will be transcendental; if they are impure, the knowledge will be empirical. In a looser sense, 'knowledge' also refers to that which arises out adopting any legitimate perspective.
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