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# Oct/20/2003
Validation of Knowledge

Validation of Knowledge

Basic Ideas

The evidence used to validate knowledge comes from many sources. Some natural languages have very elaborate semantics for specifying what type of evidence was used to arrive at conclusions.

NSM Examples [1]

Qualitative Evidence Scale [2]

Peikoff describes the gradual accumulation of evidence required to support a conclusion, in a given context. He identifies four states of a conclusion, as one moves from ignorance to knowledge.

References

  1. Anna Wierzbicka, "Semantics: Primes and Universals", Oxford University Press, 1996.
    Chapter 15.
  2. Leonard Peikoff, "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand", Dutton, 1991.
    Chapter 5.
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