imperfect knowledge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimperfectandknowledge
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imperfect
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɜː.fekt/us/ɪmˈpɝː.fekt/
damaged, containing problems, or not ...
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knowledge
noun
uk/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofimperfectandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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On the contrary, it was from theirimperfectknowledgethat non-numerical probabilities could arise.
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That, we are told, would be to underestimate the problems ofimperfectknowledgeand of terminological and perceptual imprecision.
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Furthermore, we show that when agents operate underimperfectknowledgeconditions, an arguing approach allows them to perform more effectively than a non-arguing one.
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These include the ability to represent different types ofimperfectknowledge; express nonlinear control laws in the form of heuristic if-then rules; and integrate numeric and symbolic aspects of reasoning.
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A well-established critique of the rational actor model is that constraints of time,imperfectknowledge and imperfect ability bound rationality and thus the ability to choose.
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They consider a permanent-income framework in which the decision maker hasimperfectknowledgeof the state and needs to estimate the state prior to making allocative decisions.
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Such an investor was unable, through hisimperfectknowledgeand narrow view and motivation, to make investment decisions that made any sense.
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It can only proceed, in my view, from animperfectknowledgeof the workings of the educational system and a limited experience.
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Choice by parents is often taken on veryimperfectknowledge.
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If we deferred all business on the basis that we haveimperfectknowledge, no business would be transacted in this place.
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We have imperfect competition mainly because ofimperfectknowledge.
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It was quite evident that the continental regulations on this subject were based on veryimperfectknowledge; and it is surprising that such regulations should still exist.
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We do not want to tie the hands of those who will address the issue in seven years' time on the basis of theimperfectknowledgethat we have today.
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The need for analytic confidence ratings arise from analysts'imperfectknowledgeof a conceptual model.
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Erskine refused to write down every crucial element of the treatment, leaving behind a flawed,imperfectknowledgeof the needed steps.
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This is sometimes interpreted to reflectimperfectknowledgeof a deterministic system but other times interpreted to mean that the causal system under study has an inherently indeterministic nature.
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He underscored what he viewed as distinctive from that mainstream: economic subjectivism,imperfectknowledge, the heterogeneity of capital, the business cycle, methodological individualism, alternative cost and market process.
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