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Awareness of facts, or competency

Knowledge is an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill. Descriptive knowledge, also called propositional knowledge, is often characterized as true belief that is distinct from opinion or guesswork by virtue of justification. While there is wide agreement among philosophers that propositional knowledge is a form of true belief, many controversies focus on justification. This includes questions like how to understand justification, whether it is needed at all, and whether something else besides it is needed. These controversies intensified in the latter half of the 20th century due to a series of thought experiments called Gettier cases that provoked alternative definitions. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: KnowledgeA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Large language models encode clinical knowledgeInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Problems of PhilosophyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profilesCited 51,029 times
  5. Go sideways: EpistemologyA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Declarative knowledgeA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

Noun Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

Noun Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

Noun Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

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