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On the Digital Information and Knowledge

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2020, (34), pp.1~18
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2020..34.001
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 18, 2020
  • Accepted : November 29, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Kim Hak-taek 1

1대진대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

In the traditional view of knowledge, knowledge, that is, knowing, is a justified true belief. The justification of a belief lies in whether it corresponds to facts, or whether it has a logical coherence with other beliefs. However, it is not appropriate to apply this to the digital information age. Even if information is not the basis for correspondence with facts or logical coherence, it is accepted as knowledge if it has the continuity of the relational construction of information and reconstruction with new information. Digital knowledge is propositional knowledge, but requires practical and methodical knowledge. In addition, since it is composed by taking information materials according to links selected by users according to their needs and interests by accessing web documents, an active role of subjectivity is required to obtain knowledge, and the knowledge cannot be objective or absolute. However, this does not undermine the meaning and value of digital knowledge. Because the digital knowledge building is justified by the relationship structure of information and its continuity, even if there is no procedure for whether it corresponds to the fact or whether it is logically consistent, The condition of digital knowledge can be viewed as the relaxation or change of the justification condition in the traditional view of knowledge.

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