Declarative Knowledge
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A Declarative Knowledge is a knowledge item (about concepts) that is expressed in declarative sentences (or indicative propositions).
- AKA: Conceptual/Propositional Knowledge, Descriptive Knowledge.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Factual Knowledge, Domain Knowledge, Declarative Knowledge Base, Knowledge Base, Conceptual Knowledge, Gettier Problem.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_knowledge Retrieved:2017-1-19.
- Descriptive knowledge, also declarative knowledge or propositional knowledge, is the type of knowledge that is, by its very nature, expressed in declarative sentences or indicative propositions. This distinguishes descriptive knowledge from what is commonly known as "know-how", or procedural knowledge (the knowledge of how, and especially how best, to perform some task), and "knowing of", or knowledge by acquaintance (the knowledge of something's existence).
The difference between knowledge and beliefs is as follows: A belief is an internal thought or memory which exists in one's mind. Most people accept that for a belief to be knowledge it must be, at least, true and justified. The Gettier problem in philosophy is the question of whether there are any other requirements before a belief can be accepted as knowledge.
The article epistemology discusses the opinion of philosophers on how one can tell which beliefs constitute actual knowledge.
- Descriptive knowledge, also declarative knowledge or propositional knowledge, is the type of knowledge that is, by its very nature, expressed in declarative sentences or indicative propositions. This distinguishes descriptive knowledge from what is commonly known as "know-how", or procedural knowledge (the knowledge of how, and especially how best, to perform some task), and "knowing of", or knowledge by acquaintance (the knowledge of something's existence).
2009
- (Carey, 2009) ⇒ Susan Carey. (2009). “The Origin of Concepts." Oxford University Press, ISBN:0199887918
- QUOTE: Concepts are units of thought, the constituents of beliefs and theories, and those that interest me here are roughly the grain of single lexical items. Indeed, the meanings of words are paradigm examples of concepts. I am concerned with the mental representation of concepts; I use phrases such as “the infant’s concept animal” to mean the infant’s representation of animals. I assume representations are states of the nervous system that have content, that refer to concrete or abstract entities, to properties, to events.
1986
- (Hiebert, 1986) ⇒ James Hiebert (editor). (1986). “Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge: The case of mathematics." Routledge.