Abstract:

Tech-Transknowletology has triadically integrated and converged knowledge, translation and technology, profoundly epitomizing the necessary trends of translation studies’ inherent interdisciplinarity and paradigmatic shift in the digital contexts. However, in the context of AI-triggered epistemological and ontological reconfiguration, Tech-Transknowletology has faced with ontological ambiguity and lacks logical articulation and other fundamental problems. In view of this, grounding itself in a reciprocal perspective: knowledge translation through a techno-philosophical lens and technology through the lens of translation knowledge, this paper dissects two core philosophical propositions: ontology grounding and rationale reasoning. Specifically, it focuses on its essential characteristics, intrinsic relationality, generative logics of conceptual items and underlying rationales of construction. As an interdisciplinary result, Tech-Transknowletology requires the consolidation of its ontological foundation and the clarification of its path to logical development to provide a robust epistemological foundation and methodological scaffolding for in-depth progress and enrichment.

Key words: Tech-Transknowletology, dual lens of views on knowledge translation and technology, ontology grounding, rationale reasoning