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Knowledge as Code

Martin Monperrus · 2026 · arXiv

DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.27693 · open-access PDF

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几千年来,知识一直被语言传递,而大型语言模型仍然把语言放在中心。然而,基于这些模型构建的编码代理人大多写代码。这篇论文是对传记学的贡献,它询问了什么样的知识代码,以及它是如何获得的。我们将知识定义为编码作为编写在编程语言或机器可读数据格式中的知识,其有效性可以通过执行来检查。我们定义了知识媒体的十三种传记属性,并表明代码是所有这些内容的第一个媒介。

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Abstract

For millennia, knowledge has been carried by language, and large language models still put language at the center. Yet the coding agents built on these models mostly write code. This paper is a contribution to epistemology, which asks what kind of knowledge code is and how it is obtained. We define knowledge as code as knowledge written in a programming language or in a machine-parsable data format, whose validity can be checked by executing it. We define thirteen epistemic properties of knowledge media and show that code is the first medium to have all of them. We distinguish two ways in whic

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