Press Release: Dictionaries.ro Launches a Free Search & Reference Platform for Words, Meanings and Knowledge

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Dictionaries.ro, a new free online search and reference platform, has officially launched, offering users a simple way to explore words, meanings, related concepts and general knowledge without having to move constantly between multiple websites.
Designed as a lightweight and accessible web application, Dictionaries.ro combines several types of search and reference tools in a single interface. Users can enter a word, phrase or question and choose between automatic search, dictionary results, encyclopedia information, web search and a built-in Prompt Builder.

What counts as knowledge—how do we know that we know?

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We use “know” constantly—I know the way, she knows the answer, we know smoking causes cancer. But what turns a confident belief into knowledge? Philosophers call this the epistemic question. Below is a compact tour of the main ideas and … Read More

The Knowledge

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Sfetcu, Nicolae (2022). The Knowledge, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11276.59528, in Telework: https://www.telework.ro/en/the-knowledge/   Abstract Hard to say what knowledge is. The more this concept is discussed, the more divergent opinions are. Epistemology is the theory of knowledge, and one of the characteristic … Read More

Knowledge and wisdom

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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ~ Phrasee.co

Polanyi’s tacit knowledge applied in intelligence

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Owen Ormerod has developed a theory that Michael Polanyi’s opinion on science can contribute to understanding the process and the “product” of intelligence analysis. (Ormerod 2018) Michael Polanyi’s arguments about the activities of scientists are transferable in the field of … Read More

Epistemology of Intelligence Analysis

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In intelligence, epistemology is the study of the threat awareness and the way the threat is understood in the field of intelligence analysis. Most definitions of intelligence do not consider the fact that the epistemic normative status of the intelligence … Read More

Intelligence Analysis

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The analysts are in the field of “knowledge”. Intelligence refers to knowledge and the types of problems addressed are knowledge problems. So, we need a concept of work based on knowledge. We need a basic understanding of what we know … Read More

Lakatos on justificationism

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The methodology of scientific research programmes is an improvement of Popper’s demarcation criterion between science and non-science, a theory of scientific rationality. For Popper, a theory is scientific only if it is empirically falsifiable, that is, if it is possible … Read More

Knowledge in philosophy

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In philosophy, it is studied above all knowledge in the sense of the state of the one who knows something. The known things themselves are also knowledge, but this second notion is not that which interests the philosophers. Likewise, knowledge, … Read More

Relationship between perception and knowledge – Conceptualism

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According to some analyzes, the intentional content of perception is entirely conceptual. One can not perceive an object without mobilizing some concept of that object and without forming, or being willing to form, any belief about it. (The Müller-Lyer illusion … Read More

Philosophical debates on knowledge

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Positivism vs. Constructivism Some epistemological postures consider the object “knowledge” in a radically different way: the positivist posture considers the truth value of propositional knowledge representing reality as independent of the will of men, without metaphysical content and where a … Read More

Theory of knowledge

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(Nature unveiling itself to Science Allegory of Louis-Ernest Barrias.) The theory of knowledge has been assimilated to the philosophy of knowledge and to gnoseology. When the theory of knowledge is assimilated to the philosophy of knowledge, it is part of … Read More

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