Knowledge

Knowledge is a set of Justified True Beliefs that are available and usable by an Agent to Reason.

• Context:
  • It can range from being:
    • Tacit Knowledge to being Explicit Knowledge.
    • Procedural Knowledge(Operational Knowledge) to being Declarative Knowledge.
    • A Priori Knowledge to being A Posteriori Knowledge.
    • Speculative Knowledge to being Scientific Knowledge.
  • It can range from:
    • being Domain-Specific Knowledge
    • to being Domain-Independent Knowledge.
  • It can be discovered with a Knowledge Discovery Task.
  • It can be acquired by the Knowledge Acquisition Task.
  • It can be represented in a Knowledge Base (such as an Ontology).
  • It is the focus of Epistemology.
• Example(s):
  • an Area of Knowledge within some Academic Discipline, e.g. Knowledge of Statistical Concepts.
• See: Concept, Knowledge Base, Entity, Justified True Belief.

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References

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=knowledge
  • S: (n) cognition, knowledge, noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

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