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“The quality of knowledge is best measured by how many people accept it.”…
“The quality of knowledge is best measured by how many people accept it.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge.
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Assumption: that quality is only measured by the physical number of people that accept it. rules out alternate views and contrasting opinions; majority wins every time
this makes it hard to produce new knowledge, disqualifies any unpopular knowledge
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Implicit: what is knowledge, why does quality matter
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Rephrase: What constitutes quality of knowledge, can it be measured, and is it measured by the amount of people who accept the knowledge?
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