    # KEHOME/knowledge/theory/Epistemology/TabulaRasa.html
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    # Tabula Rasa           #
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    # Richard H. McCullough #
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    Reference:
    Ayn Rand, "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution",
    Revised Edition, New American Library, 1975.
    "The Comprachicos", page 190.

    	At birth, a child's mind is tabula rasa; he has the
    	potential of awareness -- the mechanism of a human
    	consciousness -- but no content.  Speaking metaphorically,
    	he has a camera with an extremely sensitive, unexposed
    	film (his conscious mind), and an extremely complex
    	computer waiting to be programmed (his subconscious).
    	Both are blank.

What I want to do here is to define the context embodied
in the "camera" and "computer" of the human mind.
The context includes the Axiomatic Propositions discussed previously.
We next add the fundamental concepts of knowledge

    	at space=s, time=t, view = tabula rasa {
    	    knowledge := man do identify od existent done
    	    knowledge unit is list of proposition
    	    knit is knowledge unit  # abbreviation

    	    proposition is list of word
    	    word means concept, unit
    	    unit isu concept
    	    unit means existent  # referent

    	    sensation := man do sense od existent done
    	    percept := man do perceive od sensation done # remember
    	    concept := man do classify od percept done
    	    characteristic := man do identify od concept done
    	    value := man do measure od characteristic done
    	    concept isi unit1,unit2,... with value       # integrate
    	    species1,species2,... isd concept with value # differentiate
    	}

    and the other concepts which characterize the mechanism of
    a human consciousness

    	causality
    	volition

    and the grammatical relationships of the knowledge representation
    language, KR.  For example:

    	if, then, else, fi,
    	every

    As a concession to practical efficiency, the tabula_rasa view
    includes some other commonly used concepts, e.g.,

    	animal  plant  object
    	live  move  birth  death
    	purpose
    	number
    	file
    	list  sequence  set
    	hierarchy  lattice  group

Here's the final tabula rasa hierarchy and definitions.
Knowledge Explorer has its own context of attributes and actions,
which govern its interaction with the user. These are described
in Knowledge Explorer and KE attributes and actions.