Poetic knowledge
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The question of whether poetry gives knowledge or not is one that is debated from a variety of perspectives, depending on how a society or a culture defines knowledge, and on the function it ascribes to poetry in relation to that definition. Mapping the history of poetry gives clear indications that claims to knowledge, both those made on behalf of poetry, and those denied to poetry, depend more on assumptions, predispositions and cultural conditioning than on rational argument or critical debate.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Knowledge as an ecology
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Knowledge, and in its lesser form, information, can be considered as an ecology brought about by evolution, and such knowledge can decode or read reality as in science. Knowledge and information are historically delivered to the present with lineages stretching back millennia or centuries or even shorter periods, depending on the nature of the knowledge/information transmission lines, whether they be oral, hand-written or printed, or in digital form.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Classification and human language
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The human propensity to classify the world is reflected universally in language, at many levels and in several ways. At its most fundamental level, all languages minimally distinguish the pronouns 'I' and 'you', while the most obvious, and overt, expression of classification in language involves gender.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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