Knowledge Evaluation and Validation in the Context of Epistemic Structures

Mark Burgin

Chapter 3 in Theory of Knowledge:Structures and Processes, 2016, pp 169-305 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Traditionally, separation of knowledge from beliefs is treated as the foremost problems in epistemology. This separation is performed by truth-evaluation of beliefs — those beliefs that were considered true and for which this evaluation was justified were called knowledge. Although contemporary theories of knowledge have elaborated more sophisticated criteria, all of them include some kind of evaluation (Pollock and Cruz, 1999)…

Keywords: Knowledge; Information; Data; Cognition; Knowledge Acquisition; Epistemology; Knowledge Management; Artificial Intelligence; Logic; Reasoning; Knowledge Base; Belief; Epistemic Structure; Theory; Semantic Network; Ontology; Logical Variety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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