LearnScope: What do we know about knowledge?
LearnScope: What do we know about knowledge?"No bit of knowledge, then, stands alone and in isolation from the rest. The accumulation of knowledge is fundamentally different from the accumulation of grains of sand, where each item could be acquired and stored as though it were a unique and distinct entity. In any form of knowledge, there is a process not only of acquiring some new experience, but also of assessing it and placing it in its proper location in the larger system. Knowledge exists in what Quine would call a ‘web of belief,’ a network of related ideas, each referring to and depending on the rest for their meaning, truth and value."
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