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Expert system[]
The knowledge base contains both factual and heuristic knowledge:
- Factual knowledge consists of items commonly agreed upon by spokesmen in a particular field.
- Heuristic knowledge is the less rigorous, more experiential and more judgmental knowledge of performance or what commonly constitutes the rules of "good judgment" or the art of "good guessing" in a field.[1]
General[]
A knowledge base is
| “ | a set of information, incorporated by a person or system, that allows that person or system to understand received information.[2] | ” |