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Humanities > Knowledge

Preferred term

Knowledge  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Epistemology

Note

  • restrict to knowledge as an abstract or philosophical concept, as "transmission of knowledge"; do not use as coordinate for knowledge of specific subjects as "fuller use of our knowledge about children"; will figure largely in historical articles & historical contexts; "medical knowledge" is probably MEDICINE & not here

Scope note

  • The body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time, the cumulated sum of information, its volume and nature, in any civilization, period, or country.

History note

  • 97

In other languages

  • tieto

    Finnish

  • informaatio
  • tiedot
  • tietämys
  • Kunskap

    Swedish

  • Epistemologi

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019359

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