Understood as a driver of change, design is subject to a dual tension between the formal sphere of knowledge and the need to analyse and endorse reality in its many informal forms and dimensions.
In this respect, urban design thanks to its ability to intercept single and episodic phenomena, tendencies or behaviours and steer them towards perspectives of change is subject to a dual tension between the formal sphere of knowledge and the need to analyse and endorse reality in its variety of informal aspects and forms.
Hartmann sees quantities as determinations of real being and qualities as (within limits) determinations of the secondary sphere of knowledge (A.39a).
From the point of view of a mathematician, for example, the most important aspect of a conjecturing task might be the goal, the conjecture that results from the conjecturing activity, and how that conjecture expands the sphere of potential mathematical knowledge (Thurston, 1994).
With this distinction between the spheres of scientific knowledge and of craft we seem to have, at last, the classic division between the purely theoretical and the purely practical.
For the sake of increasing the spheres of tolerance, knowledge and diversity, make information access a priority around the globe.
The American advantage, in Starr's account, began in Colonial days: this country had free and open communications and, as a result, an especially healthy "public sphere" — in Starr's words, the sphere of "public discussion, public knowledge, and public opinion".
The relation, now more slippery and fragile, between the (substantial) universal and the singular required that singulars be moved from the sphere of imperfect and piecemeal sense knowledge and made available to the cognitive faculty that is concerned with universals.
The Carmen Sandiego series (Where in the World, and so forth) was a rare exception, because its sphere of knowledge, geography, was ideal for an adventure-game format.
"The current AI movement is based not on new fundamental discoveries but mostly on the abundance of knowledge based in the sphere of algorithms and technologies in various areas if AI and of course increase in computer capacity contributes a lot to AI development.
I wondered if the compulsive naming of parts, diseases and chemical reactions – frenulum, otitis, glycolysis – was a mechanism invented by doctors to defend themselves against a largely unknowable sphere of knowledge".
