Introduction: Foundations of Clinical Reasoning—An Epistemological Stance

The Epistemological Foundations of Knowledge Representations

This paper looks at the epistemological foundations of knowledge representations embodied in retrieval languages. It considers questions such as the validity of knowledge representations and their effectiveness for the purposes of retrieval and automation. The knowledge representations it considers are derived from three theories of meaning that have dominated twentieth-century philosophy. The ...

Epistemological Foundations for the Cosmological Argument

The cosmological argument – the argument from contingency to the existence of a necessary First Cause – forms the core of a long-standing research program in philosophical theology. Even if such theistic arguments are, as Plantinga has demonstrated, unnecessary for the reasonableness of theistic belief, a successful proof would by all accounts have considerable significance. The cosmological ar...

philosophical hermeneutics and epistemological foundations of history

the effective and efficient understanding of the past, which is useful for present time, will transform the history into a dynamic science when it becomes an essential concern for historians. history, as a science, is the result of historian’s insights and perceptions; and philosophical hermeneutics with emphasizing on ontology of understanding and especially on importance of interpretation, ha...

Modern AI: Stochastic Models and an Epistemological Stance

Epistemological foundations of a publication policy: its application to HSM

The criteria which editors should follow to evaluate the material they accept for publication are examined. Given that what is written must satisfy two audiences, one of scientists/ academicians and another of managers/ practitioners, two types of knowledge are defined and described. Criteria for both sets are presented and advanced. Publications intended for scientists/ academicians should be ...