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This paper examines the general epistemological assumptions of artificial intelligence technology and recent work in the development of expert systems. These systems are limited because of a failure to recognize the real character of expert understanding, which is acquired as the fifth stage of a five-step process. A review of the successes and failures of various specific expert system programs confirms this analysis.
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Dreyfus, H.L., Dreyfus, S.E. (1986). From Socrates to Expert Systems: The Limits of Calculative Rationality. In: Mitcham, C., Huning, A. (eds) Philosophy and Technology II. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4512-8_9
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