Some aspects of knowledge

2020

AbstractWith the rise of computers, the Internet, and high-throughput data collection, the almost instantaneous communication and sharing the knowledge treasures across the academic and engineering communities have become a reality. The powerful computerised searching machines are increasingly employed to mine the scientific publications thus improving the quality of the integrated knowledge records generated in the originally disconnected domains. The question is how this ascend can be elevated to even higher levels. We are whirling at galactic velocities in the Universe the limits of which must be to our best knowledge described as―infinite. Are we hopelessly lost in an endless and eternal space, or are we unimaginably rich because of the limitless resources around us? In the following chapters, the concept and structure of knowledge will be disused, categories of misinforming modes identified, examples of ambiguous concepts presented, and improved definitions will be developed. A...

Nuevas Perspectivas Para La Difusion Y Organizacion Del Conocimiento Actas Del Congreso Vol 1 2009 Isbn 978 84 8363 397 7 Pags 372 378, 2009

This paper aims to explore the possibilities of Interdisciplinarity in knowledge organization field as approaches of epistemology. My purpose is to find some examples what give some new advances of the Concept. I will point the connection of Concept to the different sciences in second part of my work. This paper examines some traditional approaches of the Concept (Carnap, Church, Wittgenstein, Horwich, Dahlberg, etc.) and its circumstances on the basis of different sciences (Philosophy, Epistemology, Psychology, Physics, Semantics, etc.). I would like to conclude at the first step: one of the fundamental conceptions of Knowledge Organization, the Concept itself is cross-science, a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary phenomenon.

2015

The authors work in the fields of computer science, knowledge engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, neurobiology, philosophy, and psychology. They are members of the interdisciplinary “DarmstädterOntologenkreis” (Darmstadt Circle of Ontologists). The article is based on the results of several colloquiums dealingwith the concept of ontology in different scientific fields, taking place at the “Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences” since 2010.

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1995

In the grand tradition, philosophical ontology was considered logically and epistemologically prior to scientific ontology. Like many contemporary philosophers of science, we consider this to be a mistake. There is two-way traffic between philosophical and scientific ontologies; the more we learn about what there actually is, the more we learn about what can be and what must be, and vice versa. But that is not the present topic; here we focus on the ontology or ontologies of science, not traditional philosophical ontologies or the traffic between scientific and philosophical ontologies.

Philosophy is the effort to understand the life deeply and make sense of what is happening in his/her own way. It requires questioning and investigation. It is the art of looking at the universe in unity, combining the pieces and synthesizing. At the same time, it is a product of critical minds, persistent attitude toward research and passion for knowing the truth. Epistemology is explaining the science by philosophy, in another word, the examination of science from the perspective of philosophy. As epistemology deals with general structure of scientific thought, it also searches for criticism of the truth. In this study, the examination of knowledge from the point of philosophy has been targeted. Epistemology has been discussed from its various aspects. For this purpose, the concepts of knowledge, philosophy and epistemology have been studied. Key Words: Knowledge, Philosophy, Epistemology

The evolution of knowledge has imposed branching into disciplines that use terms understood “correctly” only by experts. Globalisation favours cross-disciplinary and transparent communication. However, these trends have uncovered impedances such as prolixity, ambiguity and jargon. Internet enables communication with the speed of light, thus exposing other limits to knowledge transfer, such as misinformation and misunderstanding. Knowledge is transferred by interaction of language with other models (e.g. figures) and by demonstrations. Transparency of terminology is critical for knowledge management. This treatise presents an axiomatic definition of the term 'definition' itself, in order to enable a rational analysis of lexical elements - the words. The examples of confusing terms (homonyms, synonyms) are discussed. A trend of using inter-disciplinary and transparent lexicon is proposed, with adopting a hierarchy of terms that allocates the priority to fundamental disciplines (mathematics, physics). Scientific lexicon should attribute to each definition a unique set of words. The need to expunge scientific and technical language of ambiguity is urgent and the comprehensive review and “cleaning” of scientific terms is a task that demands the gathering together of appropriate institutions. The key to disambiguation of scientific language is in defining quantifiable criteria.

2013 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2013

This paper suggests that the purpose (goal) and manner (method) of knowledge application and generation usefully distinguishes engineering and scientific knowledge. This method could be significantly useful in distinguishing the scientific and engineering components of engineering education, as well as underscored the centrality of social context to engineering work, and engineering values. This paper presents a brief exploration of the epistemology of knowledge, specifically distinguishing the development of scientific knowledge from the development of engineering knowledge. It outlines a pragmatic theory of knowledge which provides a means by which to reliably distinguish, particularly in a learning environment, the critical terms of 'science', 'engineering science' and 'engineering.'

Academicus International Scientific Journal

Is it possible to draw a border line between ontology and epistemology? A positive answer to this question looks attractive, mainly because it reflects convictions deeply entrenched in our common sense view of the world. However, anyone wishing to clarify the distinction between the ontological and the epistemological dimensions meets problems. This is due to the fact that the separation between factual and conceptual is not clean, but rather fuzzy. It is certainly correct to state that science means to offer correct information about the world, but the extent to which it succeeds in accomplishing this task is always questionable. We cannot claim that the picture provided by today science - our current scientific image of the world - is absolutely correct, because the history of science itself shows us that any such statement is likely to be rejected by future generations. While it may be recognized that science purports to offer a correct description of the real world, the past exp...

According to Tihamér Margitay, Michael Polanyi held a strong correspondence thesis between the structure of tacit knowing and the structure of ontological emergence. In agreement with Margitay, this article finds a one-to-one correspondence implausible, given our tacit ability to integrate various clues into the apprehension of the same object and given the multiple realization of object types via different components. It is acknowledged, however, that such a correspondence is encouraged by an analytic, scientific approach to understanding objects (as Bedeutungen), when held distinct from linguistic modes of identifying objects (via Sinne). It is then shown how the epistemological and ontological interweave at a deeper level in Polanyi's participatory or enactive realism. This notion of epistemontology counters a second set of Margitay's criticisms. It reaffirms a pluralist ontology by demonstrating how machine types, as comprehensive entities, resist a reduction to material parts and lower level physical laws, without violating such laws.