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  • 21acquire — verb /əˈkwaɪɚ/ a) To get. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. mdash; b) To gain, usually by ones own exertions; to get as ones own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. Descent is the title… …

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  • 22Descriptive knowledge — Descriptive knowledge, also declarative knowledge or propositional knowledge, is the species of knowledge that is, by its very nature, expressed in declarative sentences or indicative propositions. This distinguishes descriptive knowledge from… …

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  • 23Intuition (knowledge) — Intuition is apparent ability to acquire knowledge without a clear inference or the use of reason.It is the immediate apprehension of an object by the mind without the intervention of any reasoning process [Oxford English Dictionary] Intuition… …

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  • 24Locke: knowledge and its limits — Ian Tipton I That John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding is one of the philosophical classics is something nobody would deny, yet it is not easy to pinpoint precisely what is so special about it. Locke himself has been described as the …

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  • 25Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… …

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  • 26Tacit knowledge — The concept of tacit knowing comes from scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. It is important to understand that he wrote about a process (hence tacit knowing) and not a form of . However, his phrase has been taken up to name a form of… …

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  • 27Nuclear Knowledge Management — Contents 1 Definition of knowledge management 2 Noted knowledge management practices 2.1 Training and qualification 2.2 Communication methods and techniques …

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  • 28a priori knowledge — ▪ philosophy       in Western philosophy since the time of Immanuel Kant, knowledge that is independent of all particular experiences, as opposed to a posteriori knowledge, which derives from experience alone. The Latin phrases a priori (“from… …

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  • 29High Performance Knowledge Bases — The High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) was a DARPA research program to advance the technology of how computers acquire, represent and manipulate knowledge. The successor of the HPKB project was the Rapid Knowledge Formulation project.The… …

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  • 30gain experience — acquire knowledge through repeated involvement, gain familiarity …

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