Sounds like stuff from the crossover area between AI and psychology. Roughly speaking, I'd say that in this area possessing semantic knowledge means you have a representation of something which corresponds to something in the real world (i.e. it is a symbol for that thing). Possessing syntactic knowledge means you have a representation which is structured in the same way as something in the world... which amounts to the same thing.
Semantic/syntactic representation *of* knowledge, on the other hand, sounds far more philosophical, and as someone with a philosophy degree I can safely say: What?! I would guess it comes down to analysing the semantics and syntax of knowledge, but that doesn't sound too different from the above.
To be fair to the exam in question, I *think* computer science is supposed to be about the abstract theory of computing rather than any particular computer and how it works.
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Date: 2003-01-15 07:00 am (UTC)Semantic/syntactic representation *of* knowledge, on the other hand, sounds far more philosophical, and as someone with a philosophy degree I can safely say: What?! I would guess it comes down to analysing the semantics and syntax of knowledge, but that doesn't sound too different from the above.
To be fair to the exam in question, I *think* computer science is supposed to be about the abstract theory of computing rather than any particular computer and how it works.