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“Knowledge is nothing natural” as philosophers claim15, while from the historian’s perspective16 the accumulation of knowledge is the basis of the human evolution since its very beginning thousands of years ago. The discussion on knowledge has a very long tradition. As early as the 5th century B.C. the philosopher Socrates dealt with the question of the limits of knowledge.17
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Mertins, K., Heisig, P., Vorbeck, J. (2003). Introduction. In: Mertins, K., Heisig, P., Vorbeck, J. (eds) Knowledge Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24778-4_1
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