But there is another problem lurking in the tripartite theory of knowledge. In 1963, Edmund Gettier published a two-and-a-half page paper showing that it is possible to hold a justified true belief ...

This article aims to provide a structural analysis of the problems related to the easy knowledge problem. The easy knowledge problem is well known. If we accept that we can have basic knowledge via a ...

I am always fascinated about how much great information there is online. I'm also a bit miffed at how much that information can hold back patients. When you have a chronic illness, there is the period ...

Let’s begin with the question, what is “Tribal Knowledge?” To put it simply, tribal knowledge is any undocumented information— which resides only in the minds of certain people—that is critical to a ...

Can AI be used to intelligently rank expertise? Serial entrepreneur Peter Relan thinks it can, and has today launched what he’s billing as a “knowledge-as-service” (KaaS) web platform to connect ...

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s own ignorance. —Confucius What if we are being radically deceived? What if I am no more than a brain kept alive in a vat and fed with stimuli by a mad ...

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Why? It is impossible for ...