Knowledge, Pragmatics, and Error

Knowledge, conservatism, and pragmatics

The apparent contextual variability exhibited by ‘knows’ and its cognates – brought to attention in examples like Keith DeRose’s Bank Case – poses familiar problems for conservative forms of invariantism about ‘knows’. The paper examines and criticises a popular response to those problems, one that involves appeal to so-called ‘pragmatic’ features of language. It is first argued, contrary to wh...

Pragmatics of the Knowledge Level

new hypotheis test observable new evidence abstract finding focus trigger specific finding FIGURE 5.11: Introducing nding abstractions In addition, syndromatic abstraction could be considered as a fourth type of abstraction. In syndromatic abstraction, a cluster of ndings is treated as one aggregate nding. Clustering of ndings is probably the most e cient way of limiting the number of hypothese...

Pragmatics and Discourse in Knowledge Graphs

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are fast becoming the cornerstone of research for storing and retrieving information effectively due to their ability to link heterogeneous data, make inferences, and discover new knowledge without additional human input. Researchers use a plethora of KGs like NELL, DBPedia, YAGO to augment their information extraction activities. However, in such diverse and expressive g...

Pragmatics Aware Querying in Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs

With the increase in structured Linked Data sources, Knowledge Graphs(KG) are becoming indispensable in areas like Question Answering, Web Search and Data Analytics. Given the richness present in the KG schema definitions, more expressive user querying is possible. However, accessing KGs is still challenging, because the rich schema is not exposed in a more intuitive way to the naive user. This...

The Pragmatics and Logic of Knowledge Representation with Prototypes