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Working Definition:
Knowledge* is the result of a systematic procedure of inquiry, acquaintance with facts; a body of facts; learning; knowledge must be established, accepted as such. Is already culturally codified in the sense that it is produced by disciplinary procedures of codification.
*In C-CS the term, "knowledge," is used in relation to scientific inquiry. It is used in contrast to understanding, following Dilthey. See Ermarth, Wilhelm Dilthy, on Dilthey's distinction between knowledge and understanding. 249-51.See Makkreel Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies on Dilthey's distinction between Geisteswissenschaften (Human Sciences) and Naturwissenschaften (Natural Sciences), 38ff.
Disciplinary Definitions:
"epistemology (from Greek episteme, 'knowledge' and logos, 'explanation') the study of the nature of knowledge and justification . . . Philosophers have identified various species of knowledge: for instance proposition knowledge (that something is so), non-propositional knowledge of something (e.g., knowledge by acquaintance or by direct awareness), empirical ... non empirical ..." Note the following remark: "The belief condition. This requires thatanyone who knows that p (where p stands for any proposition or statement) believe that p. If, therefore, you do not believe that minds brains ..., then you do not know that minds are brains." Audi, The Cambride Dictionary of Philosophy
Comments:
I distinguish between knowledge and information, the later being discrete and un-integrated epressions of facts and opinions.
Notes
A "knowledge base" includes all the stored cognitive representations that belong to a certain network. (context of situation + context of culture). See Lee, Cognitive Linguistics
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