On 9/15/06, Stefan Pernar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,

On 9/15/06, Bruce LaDuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Knowledge - That which is retained in a storage mechanism at any level
> (individual, group, societal).

Is your definition of knowledge limited to what is provably true and
known facts or is the level of certainty/probability of the retained
storage excluded? This aspect seems abscent from your definition.

Well, under some viewpoints, empirical 'facts' are _never_ "true" or "false" ; they are just "very well supported by experience" or "unsupported by experience"

Some people seem to think that the only sensible knowledge is empirical knowledge (Empiricism, I think)

So, for say, a Bayesian Empiricist (is this a tautology?), retaining knowledge without retaining the probability of the retained facts would be Of The Pointless.

So I would expect that such things MUST be stored.

-- Olie


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