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Activity (or action) - Use of knowledge that causes change. Sequential schema node retrieval.

Analysis - Deconstruction leading to understanding.

Assumptions - Previous knowledge from which conclusions are drawn.

Data - Perceptions.

Expertise - Superior knowledge.

Fact - Representation of reality; an object at a place in time.

Information - How facts affect each other. Fact made useful (given meaning) through a relationship with existing knowledge.

Infosphere - A set of high-level knowledge used to value and perform a task.

Knowledge - Why facts affect each other. Group of related facts (information) organized into a causality tree structure (schema). Understanding.

Learning - Re-assembly of schema through fusion. See the Fusing Information For Expertise white paper.

Metadata - Knowledge about data.

Problem - System of facts. Mis-adaptation; questions to be considered.

Process - Series of activities involved in performing a task.

Question - Tool of learning. Channel to environment.

Task - Solving a problem or seizing an opportunity to improve. Ranges from a one-time project to a continuous operation (including production and management practices).

Technology - The actualization of rationality. Answers the questions that people ask.

Time - The tether between cause and effect.

Understand - To know thoroughly by grasping all levels of meaning.

Wisdom - Awareness of knowledge.



 

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