Conceptual Landscapes of Knowledge: A Pragmatic Paradigm for Knowledge Processing

Abstract

Knowledge understood on the basis of Peirce's Pragmatism can be activated by using the metaphor of landscape. This approach is outlined by discussing conceptual landscapes of knowledge within the development of Formal Concept Analysis. Various tasks of knowledge processing are considered such as exploring, searching, recognizing, identifying, analyzing, investigating, deciding, improving, restructuring, and memorizing. For all these tasks examples of concrete applications are given which show the fruitfulness of the landscape paradigm of knowledge; in most of those applications, the conceptual structures are implemented by using the management system TOSCANA.