BELIEF IS PRIOR TO KNOWLEDGE

Why Desire Reasoning is Developmentally Prior to Belief Reasoning

Word count: 11.765 Abstract: The predominant view in developmental psychology is that young children are able to reason with the concept of desire prior to being able to reason with the concept of belief. We propose an explanation of this phenomenon that focuses on the cognitive tasks that competence with the belief and desire concepts enable young children to perform. We show that cognitive ta...

Divine detailed prior knowledge to creatures in transcendent philosophy

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Is knowledge justified true belief?

Is knowledge justified true belief? Most philosophers believe that the answer is clearly ‘no’, as demonstrated by Gettier cases. But Gettier cases don’t obviously refute the traditional view that knowledge is justified true belief (JTB). There are ways of resisting Gettier cases, at least one of which is partly successful. Nevertheless, when properly understood, Gettier cases point to a flaw in...

Rule mining with prior knowledge - a belief networks approach

Some existing data mining methods, such as classification trees, neural networks and association rules, have the drawbacks that the user’s prior knowledge cannot be easily specified and incorporated into the knowledge discovery process, and the rules mined from databases lack quantitative analyses. In this paper, we propose a belief networks method for rule mining, which takes the advantage of ...

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