# KEHOME/knowledge/ExamplesDefinition/peikoff.txt
# 1999/5/20

#=============================#
# Leonard Peikoff definitions #
#=============================#
# Reference:
# Leonard Peikoff,
# "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand",
# Dutton, 1991.

A hierarchy means a body of persons or things ranked
in grades, orders, or classes, one above another.

A hierarchy of knowledge means a body of concepts
and conclusions ranked in order of logical dependence,
one upon another, according to each item's distance
from the base of the structure.  The base is the
perceptual data with which cognition begins.