factual knowledge
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffactualandknowledge
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factual
adjective
uk/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/us/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
using or consisting ...
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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 offactualandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffactual knowledge
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The first isfactualknowledgeabout the environment derived from individual observations.
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Some situations require inference fromfactualknowledgerather than recognition of perceptual similarity, but similarity exerts an influence.
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Scholars in political science continue to debate, however, the implications of low levels offactualknowledgeabout government.
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Parents were encouraged to talk to their children about the issue of blame and to provide their children withfactualknowledgeabout the illness.
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These examples show that no over t distinction seems to be made between opinion andfactualknowledge.
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A limitation is that the strategic rules used depend onfactualknowledgecharacteristics of a problem case, and not on global problem solving parameters.
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They will have a wide spectrum of clinical experience, abilities, andfactualknowledge.
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We absorbfactualknowledgeabout the world, through this and other interactions with our environment.
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Factualknowledgewas the prerequisite to understanding, and understanding, in turn, the prerequisite to mastery and control.
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By contrast, our system automatically detects the important concepts in the source text and produces interrogative stems for items which testfactualknowledgeexplicitly conveyed in the text.
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Propositional knowledge isfactualknowledge, knowing about something conceptually.
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A crucial difference between science and religion is thatfactualknowledgeas such is not a principal aim of religious devotion, but plays only a supporting role.
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Caverni nevertheless serves the cause he champions with comprehensivefactualknowledgeand an astounding knowledge of the literature.
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Domain knowledge -factualknowledgeof the medical domain and the medical case that is under consideration.
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Factualknowledgeconveyed an elaborated representation of empirical evidence, and the quality of the elaborated representation was directly proportional to the investigator's skills and moral integrity.
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What we need more than anything else isfactualknowledgeabout what is actually happening on a representative selection of sites.
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