The Atlantic article references Wikipedia to explain the fair use term: "To justify the use [of copyrighted material] as fair, one must demonstrate how it either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new.
Regulatory agencies such as the EPA, the FDA, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are all participating in the NNI, following the progress of the research carefully, and building their own knowledge bases with an eye toward the eventual development and implementation of nano-specific regulatory frameworks within their purviews.
In "No Apparent Danger," Bruce gives a lucid chronological account of the progress of scientific knowledge from Nevado del Ruiz to today.
Instead of solving these problems, Rorty thought we could ditch them, just as Descartes had ditched the problems of thirteenth-century scholasticism, and at a similarly low cost to the progress of human knowledge.
The overall aim of his philosophy is to develop a positive view of the universe and the place of humans in it, one which contributes to the progress of human knowledge, individual freedom and human well-being.
However, we follow Popper (2004) in suggesting that this conjecture (with its subsequent confirmation or refutation) is of intrinsic importance to the progress of scientific knowledge per se.
This is likely to be unhelpful to the progress of psychiatric knowledge, given that it is emerging as a diagnostic entity that receives strong research support.
There are good reasons to believe that scientific research will advance the progress of knowledge, but that does not change the fact that it involves a kind of faith.
They became isolated and overwhelmed, however, by the resurgence of traditionalism and the emergence of a new kind of philosophy whose champions looked on the earlier masters as men who had made significant contributions to the progress of knowledge but whose overall view was defective and had now become outdated.
