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In cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence Bootstrap is a term used to describe the situation in which previous knowledge and experience is used to generate second generation strategies and ideas, which themselves are used to generate a third generation etc. By this means a person or system can "lift themselves up by their own bootstraps"

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• Semantic bootstrapping