Domain Specific Innate Knowledge Systems

Domain knowledge is knowledge of a specific specialized discipline or field in contrast to general knowledge or domain independent knowledge the term is often used in reference to a more general discipline as for example in describing a software engineer who has general knowledge of programming as well as domain knowledge about the pharmaceutical industry.

Domain specific innate knowledge systems. System s theory of a domain by the. In considering the big issue of whether nature or nurture plays the more important role in infant development elizabeth spelke endorses a approach which states that infants are born with domain specific innate knowledge systems. E g law of contact refers only to physics of objects. Innate knowledge is about fundamental properties of the world that are not necessarily perceptually salient or even possible to perceive.

Knowledge acquisition refers to the process of extracting structuring and organizing domain knowledge from domain experts into a program. A knowledge engineer is an expert in ai language and knowledge representation who investigates a particular problem domain determines important concepts and creates. States that infants are born with domain specific innate knowledge systems. Real world learned knowledge by simply controlling the balance between synthetic and real.

Sophisticated early knowledge without much experience. I first try sharpening the intuitive notion of domain specific knowledge by reviewing the. Innate knowledge is domain specific. Among these domain specific knowledge systems are those involving space number sense object permanence and language.

Domain knowledge knowledge that is specific to a domain such as an industry profession or topic. The innateness hypothesis is an expression coined by hilary putnam to refer to a linguistic theory of language acquisition which holds that at least some knowledge about language exists in humans at birth. It allows to introduce innate domain specific knowledge it allows to control the balance of innate vs. Yi shang in the electrical engineering handbook 2005.

States that infants are born with domain specific innate knowledge systems attention the focusing of mental resources on select information joint attention process that occurs when individuals focus on the same object and an ability to track another s behavior is present one individual directs another s attention and reciprocal interaction is present. Innate knowledge knowledge that we are born with such as a small child who is able to use logic without ever being taught a system of logic.