Knowledge, Belief, and Certitude; an Inquiry with Conclusions.

Cardinal Newman and Jury Verdicts: Reason, Belief, and Certitude

Policy Analysis with Incredible Certitude

Analyses of public policy regularly express certitude about the consequences of alternative policy choices. Yet policy predictions often are fragile, with conclusions resting on critical unsupported assumptions or leaps of logic. Then the certitude of policy analysis is not credible. I develop a typology of incredible analytical practices and gives illustrative cases. I call the...

Playing with Knowledge and Belief

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An Introduction to Belief Revision and Knowledge Representation with 2CNF

The aim of this paper is to show an introduction to the calculation of belief revision that expresses knowledge by a 2CNF. This procedure basically consists of adding a new belief expressed by a clause 2CNF, into the set of beliefs of a knowledge database, preserving its consistency. This generally implies having to remove some clauses from previous knowledge. The strategy employed to remove pr...

Bolstering Knowledge Management Systems with Appreciative Inquiry

Both Knowledge Management and Appreciative Inquiry attempt to amplify human and organizational capacities by leveraging the best of each. Whereas knowledge management systems aim to help identifying the substantive organizational knowledge in its broadest sense and leveraging it to benefit the organization and its stakeholders, the appreciative inquiry methodology is also about the search for t...