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The dynamics of cumulative knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

David Leiser
David Leiser
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israeldleiser@bgumail.bgu.ac.il www.bgu.ac.il/beh/leiser.html
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Abstract

Exploiting existing representations implies tapping an enormous domain, coextensive with human understanding and knowledge, and endowed with its own dynamics of piecewise and cumulative learning. The worth of Clark & Thornton's proposal depends on the relative importance of this dynamics and of the bottom-up mechanism they come to complement. Radical restructuring of theories and patterns of retrieval from long-term memory are discussed in the context of such an evaluation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 76 - 77
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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