As communities lose knowledge of medicinal plants, they lose health care options.
Perhaps the students lose knowledge of the test announcement even though they do not forget the announcement or do anything else incompatible with their credentials as ideal reasoners.
But without journalists like Danny Pearl we lose knowledge and understanding.
As we shall see, however, this overlooks other ways in which rational agents may lose knowledge.
In this know-nothing climate many of our citizens have lost respect for knowledge as well as for the people we entrust to convey it to the next generation.
Scientific knowledge grows incrementally, but moral knowledge can be lost as easily as it is gained.
By adopting the worst possible scenario illogical effects occur: intervention group participants, by receiving the worst possible score, lose caregiving knowledge as a result of attending the speech.
And the original purpose — deeper knowledge of a subject — is lost, as surely as the corpses surrounding Sirenum scopuli.
Not true knowledge as well.
Research by Basex, a knowledge-economy advisory firm, indicates that knowledge workers in the United States lose as much as a quarter of each working day to information overload.
Carol Ryan, a board certified lactation specialist and manager of perinatal education at Georgetown University Hospital, said many women had lost skills and knowledge as bottle-feeding supplanted breast-feeding over the last few decades.
