Collective Knowledge
Collective Knowledge
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集体知识
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1982
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通讯作者:
G. Andrén
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G. Andrén
one hand, and all other objects and events on the other. Right now, I am actualizing the proposition that 2 + 2= 4 in my mind. And as the sentence &dquo;2 + 2 = 4&dquo; is thus formulated in the manuscript of this article, this proposition will eventually be actualized inside your skulls. That 2 + 2 = 4 can also be written down on a blackboard, it can be broadcasted in a television program, it can be calculated in a computer, and so on. This very same proposition can, then, be materialized in a wide variety of places. Let us regard as mental those matters ir,volved in various processes as vehicles for propositional or conceptual entities. According to this delineation, designators (expressions of meaning) employed in a process of communication as well as brain processes and other material structures involved in the storing or processing of information, are mental. All other objects and events are, then, purely material. The fact that the same proposition or concept can be instantiated in different places, in time as well as in space, is an essential prerequisite for the evolution of the human forms of life. It makes possible the precise communication between individuals that is a condition for collective endeavors, and it makes possible the storing of information that is a