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Coherent Social Systems for Learning: An Approach for Contextual. Principles and patterns of Social Knowledge Applications. Welcome to the Social Knowledge Applications (or SKAs, for short) Web site. The aim of this site is to contribute to the understanding of existing social knowledge applications and to the design of novel applications. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of Social Knowledge Application, you might wish to start from the Overview. This site is currently the work of a single individual but the intention is to transform it into a Wiki-Book (a “Wook”?)

To which everybody will be welcome to contribute. Legal Babble Except where otherwise noted, this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Not Your Cup of Tea? Check out a different, and probably more palatable, form of SKA. Otherwise … continue reading. When I was fourteen, my family was visited by an eager encyclopaedia salesman who was promoting the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Britannica and Wikipedia could hardly be more different.

Enter now the world of Wikipedia. Rectifying the Names What’s in a name? To summarize: Gettier problem. The Gettier problem is a philosophical question about whether a piece of information that happens to be true but that someone believes for invalid reasons, such as a faulty premise, counts as knowledge. It is named after American philosopher Edmund Gettier, who wrote about the problem in a three-page paper published in 1963, called "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

". The paper refers to the concept of knowledge as justified true belief (JTB), credited to Plato. In the paper, Gettier proposed two scenarios where the three criteria (justification, truth, and belief) seemed to be met, but where the majority of readers would not have felt that the result was knowledge due to the element of luck involved. The term is sometimes used to cover any one of a category of thought experiments in contemporary epistemology that seem to repudiate a definition of knowledge as justified true belief.. The responses to Gettier's paper have been numerous. History[edit] Gettier's counterexamples[edit] The Gettier Problem. (Arkandis) Eliminer le classement un bon moyen pour ne pas réflé.