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Is less knowledge better than more?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

Alvin I. Goldman
Alvin I. Goldman
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 goldman@u.arizona.edu w3.arizona.edu/~phil/faculty/goldman.html
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Abstract

When a distinction is drawn between “total” knowledge and “problem-specific” knowledge, it is seen that successful users of the recognition heuristic have more problem-specific knowledge than people unable to exploit this heuristic. So it is not ignorance that makes them smart, but knowledge.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , October 2000 , pp. 751 - 752
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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