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Knowledge Representation

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The answer to the question What is knowledge? is not trivial. Bertrand Russell (Analysis of mind, Chapter XII) rightly said:

  • “It is difficult to define knowledge, difficult to decide whether we have any knowledge, and difficult, even if it is conceded that we sometimes have knowledge, to discover whether we can ever know that we have knowledge in this or that particular case.”

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Sriram, R.D. (1997). Knowledge Representation. In: Intelligent Systems for Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0631-9_3

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