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Areas of Knowledge (DISCIPLINES (Knowledge is divided into several…

- - - - there are some obvious ways in which knowledge from different areas can be put to use
        
        natural sciences
        
        technological world
        
        human resources
        
        process of setting social and political policy
      - the difference between a map and a territory represents a metaphor of the relationship between reality and the models of our knowledge
        
        biology
        
        molecular biology model of DNA to explain anemia
        
        chemistry
        
        Lewis model to understand the nature ad behavior of acids
        
        geography
        
        Theory of Mathus to explain the relationship between population and resources
        
        history
        
        The cold War explained by using traditional and revisionist interpretations
    - - Donald Rumsfeld
        
        known knowns are what we know we know
        
        known unknowns are what we don´t know but we know something about how to discover
      - CP Snow
        
        ideas about knowledge are product of their time as well as their cultural origin
      - Thomas Kuhn
        
        Most of the time scientists work a set of shared beefs assumptions and practices.
        
        the accepted ones, were called paradigms and whenever they ere overthrown and replaced by new ones, the named the process revolutionary science
    - - some level of misunderstanding is inevitable in the world
      - the ways in which words are defined have a great impact in life or death outcomes of many people
      - there is often a specific language expected from the scholars
      - scientific work, is expected to have specific vocabulary
      - metaphors consist of a source and the target.
    - - some aspects of some subjects are accesible through a specific method
        
        hypothetic method
        
        Testing a hypothesis or prediction
        
        Verstehen Methode
        
        trying to reach an understanding through empathy
        
        inductive method
        
        Collecting data
        
        Source analysis
        
        examining sources
        
        deductive proof
        
        logical steps
        
        textual analysis
        
        examining literally devices and structure in order to extract meaning