ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a critical scrutiny of the following scenario: Knowledge extracted from the expert by means of some knowledge elicitation techniques is encapsulated into a powerful computer system and used consequently for some form of decision making. The manufacturers and owners of these systems tend to view the knowledge contained in the system as a marketable commodity and may extend considerable effort to make confidential the contents of the knowledge base and the exact way of system functioning. The chapter outlines the regulating mechanism and the dynamics of the process by which the correctness of the basic scientific knowledge is maintained. It examines reasons; some producers-owners of knowledge-based systems may have for withdrawing the basic knowledge from the open circulation. The chapter deals with the statics of interpretation and meaning of knowledge structures, the view that linguists would call synchronic.
