Figure 1: EPISTEMIC GENETICS

KNOWLEDGE  DOMAIN

Time’s Arrow

SEARCH

ART

Literary, Media, Performing, Visual, Heritage

 

Arts Spiral

ascent preceded by descent; aesthetic; holistic; increasing tolerance; qualitative; subjective testing; value laden; why?

 

HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES (H&SS)

Humanities

Fine & Applied Arts, Folklore, History, Languages & Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Women Studies, Other

Social Sciences

Administrative Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Communications &Journalism, Criminology, Demography, Economics, Education, Geography, Industrial Relations, Information Sciences, Law, Library Science, Mathematics, Political Science, Psycho-linguistics, Psychology, Recreology & Physical Education, Science Policy, Social Work, Sociology, Urban & Regional Studies, Interdisciplinary, Other

SSH Spiral

ascent preceded by descent; contextual; mixed testing; normative; synthetic; value mixed; what?

 

 

NATURAL & ENGINEERING

SCIENCES (N&ES)

General, Biology, Chemistry,

Physics, Other

NSE Ladder

cognitive; fact-based;  decreasing tolerance; objective testing; reductive; replicability is all; 

value free; vertical ascent; how?

ART

for subjective truth

for kosmos or the right ordering of the multiple parts of the world

 

 

 

HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES (H&SS)

for reconciliation of objective & subjective truth

for understanding and molding the human world

 

 

NATURAL & ENGINEERING

SCIENCES (N&ES)

for objective truth

for understanding and controlling the physical world

 

 

 

 

 


TECHNOLOGY


ART

aesthetic or design technology

how to manipulate emotion and sensation

 

H&SS

organizational technologies

how to combine capital, labor, physical technology and information 

 

N&ES

physical technologies

how to satisfy human physical wants, needs & desires

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