Somewhat contradictorily, but inescapably so, the same knowledge can be classified one way or the other depending on the interests it serves, the purposes for which it is harnessed, or the manner in which it is generated… [A]nchored unavoidably in institutional origins and moorings, knowledge can only be useful.
Different actors can be the origin of new ideas, and knowledge flows can go in all directions, from practitioners to researchers, or from basic science to policy, and so on.
Insights into the origin of crop plants and knowledge of the identities of their progenitors are of great value in both basic and applied research programs.
Astell develops three themes common to rationalism: an emphasis of the mind over the body; a theory of innate ideas as the origin of knowledge; and a methodology that leads the novice from confusion to clarity.
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and origin of knowledge.
Epistemology, the study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge.
The Philosophische Versuche is essentially an investigation of the origin and structure of human knowledge and was the most important philosophical work written in Germany during the period immediately prior to the publication of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Kant, who valued Tetens' work highly.
In Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics, a contextual and empirical account of the origin and function of human knowledge recognized man's quest for adaptation to and control of his environment.
Ernest Cassirer, the great historian of the Enlightenment attributed to this age this motto that humanity is the origin and the end of knowledge because 'the proper study of mankind is man'.
A hunger for authenticity, direct experience, and knowledge of origins and production have been deeply embedded in elite consumption for hundreds of years, for example in the connoisseurship of French wines and foods like truffles and caviar.
