Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence
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4. Philosophical studies of knowledge. These are often not so much concerned with finding out facts as with establishing norms or standards. So philosophers try to find criteria for deciding whether certain beliefs are rational, or whether inferences from evidence to conclusions are valid. A closely related topic is the study of the systems of concepts required for formulating beliefs of different kinds, for instance concepts of space, time, matter, cause, and mind. As we shall see, philosophical studies of concepts and knowledge are closely related to work in Artificial Intelligence.
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