Mathematics
Knowledge of abstract structure established by proof from stated assumptions. Mathematics offers the nearest thing to certainty available to a knower, and raises the sharpest questions about what its objects are and why so much of it turns out to describe the world.
Through the knowledge framework
Knowledge questions
- 01What questions can this area of knowledge answer that no other can?
- 02Can a discipline be about something that cannot be observed?
- 03Does every area of knowledge aim at explanation?
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Knowledge questions
- 01How does a community decide that a result has been established?
- 02What assumptions does a method build in before it is applied?
Knowledge questions
- 01Who bears responsibility when knowledge is applied badly?