SUO: Topic :> Definition Of Knowledge
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Topic :> Knowledge 1. <JA, 04 Dec 2003, 05>
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1. What is knowledge?
2. No, really, what is it?
3. What is knowledge in reality?
4. How do you know it really is?
Let VQ = Videque = See Also = SA.
VQ. Topic :> Inquiry. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11817.html
VQ. "Principle Of Rational Action" (PORA), "Appended Infra" (AI).
VQ. Topic :> Principle. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11641.html
| Principle Of Rational Action
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| Knowledge systems are just another level within this same hierarchy,
| another way to describe a system. ... The knowledge level abstracts
| completely from the internal processing and the internal representation.
| Thus, all that is left is the content of the representations and the goals
| toward which that content will be used. As a level, it has a medium, namely,
| knowledge. It has a law of behavior, namely, if the system wants to attain
| goal G and knows that to do act A will lead to attaining G, then it will
| do A. This law is a simple form of rationality -- that an agent will
| operate in its own best interests according to what it knows.
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| Newell, UTOC, pp. 48-49.
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| Allen Newell, 'Unified Theories Of Cognition',
| Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.
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