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Another problem with the term ‘statement’ is that not every statement encodes *knowledge*. Only some statements do.↵
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Recall Deutsch’s definitions of knowledge (paraphrasing from memory): information with causal power; information which, once instantiated, causes itself to remain instantiated.↵
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The sentence ‘nice weather we’re having’ is a statement but doesn’t meet those definitionsdo.↵
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For example, trivial or tautological statements aren’t knowledge, neither in the Popperian nor common sense of knowledge.the word.