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Re-Visiting the Revised Knowledge Pyramid.

  • Published In: Library Trends, 2024, v. 73, n. 1/2. P. 95 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Haas, Aric 3 of 3

Abstract

Knowledge hierarchy models often take a bottom-up or top-down structure. Data are either empirical beliefs that form a solid foundation or observations that presuppose the knowledge required to record them in structured databases. In an attempt to connect these definitions and construct a bidirectional knowledge hierarchy, one may fall back to foundationalist epistemology, where data are immediately known through sensory experience. In this article, Wilfrid Sellars's account of the myth of the given is presented to highlight the incompatibility between these two accounts of data. Further, Sellars's positive account of observation is introduced to propose a method for defining data as both presupposing knowledge and a starting point for a bidirectional knowledge hierarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Library Trends. 2024/08, Vol. 73, Issue 1/2, p95
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Library and Information Science
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0024-2594
  • DOI:10.1353/lib.2024.a952294
  • Accession Number:183294457
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