Why We Cannot Link Facts And Theories Across Disciplines And Create A Common Groundwork
“There is no reason why we cannot link facts and theories across disciplines and create a common groundwork or explanation.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?
It has been said that there is “There is no reason why we cannot link facts and theories across disciplines and create a common groundwork or explanation.” This statement implies that there should be no obstacle to making “common” knowledge more common, and for advanced, high-level thinking to be a teachable skill available to all, regardless of culture, language, or economic standing.
Some say that humans have only survived, and will keep on surviving as a race, because each day we question what are facts and theories and how close they are to portraying the truth. …show more content…
The linking of content from various disciplines is not new; it is how knowledge is developed. The first example, which demonstrates this linkage, is the production and use of Booths Poverty Maps, which required the combination of Human Sciences, Maths and Natural Sciences. The combination of facts and theories from across these disciplines was required to produce the maps. It is easy for people to lack the basic knowledge and understanding when it concerns global issues which may appear insignificant, in this case the extent and distribution of employment in London during the 19th century. Charles Booths’ Poverty Maps began from his intuition about the statistics for the amount of Londoners living in abject poverty, which inspired him to work on a twelve-year project. In order for the project to be considered evidence fora his theory, Booths had to incorporate reason, an example of a Way of Knowing and consider human sciences because overall, Booth's extensive index of social class and location in London addressed, at least implicitly, many issues central to current social science research including those employing spatial analytic …show more content…
This is clearly not always the case, sometimes there are ‘eureka moments’ moments of deep insight which give rise to a new way of looking at things, seemingly unrelated to the earlier givens. Such as Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shift, which is, according to Thomas Kuhn, in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science. Since the 1960s, the term has also been used in numerous non-scientific contexts, such as in Humanities to describe a profound change in a fundamental model or perception of events, even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences. Kuhns theory is an example of the important role which lateral thinking and creativity play in creating knowledge. People easily limit creative thinking to subjects such as the Arts, however this theory support the idea that creative thinking as type of a common groundwork can be used to create a theory which can be interpreted across different
It has been said that there is “There is no reason why we cannot link facts and theories across disciplines and create a common groundwork or explanation.” This statement implies that there should be no obstacle to making “common” knowledge more common, and for advanced, high-level thinking to be a teachable skill available to all, regardless of culture, language, or economic standing.
Some say that humans have only survived, and will keep on surviving as a race, because each day we question what are facts and theories and how close they are to portraying the truth. …show more content…
The linking of content from various disciplines is not new; it is how knowledge is developed. The first example, which demonstrates this linkage, is the production and use of Booths Poverty Maps, which required the combination of Human Sciences, Maths and Natural Sciences. The combination of facts and theories from across these disciplines was required to produce the maps. It is easy for people to lack the basic knowledge and understanding when it concerns global issues which may appear insignificant, in this case the extent and distribution of employment in London during the 19th century. Charles Booths’ Poverty Maps began from his intuition about the statistics for the amount of Londoners living in abject poverty, which inspired him to work on a twelve-year project. In order for the project to be considered evidence fora his theory, Booths had to incorporate reason, an example of a Way of Knowing and consider human sciences because overall, Booth's extensive index of social class and location in London addressed, at least implicitly, many issues central to current social science research including those employing spatial analytic …show more content…
This is clearly not always the case, sometimes there are ‘eureka moments’ moments of deep insight which give rise to a new way of looking at things, seemingly unrelated to the earlier givens. Such as Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shift, which is, according to Thomas Kuhn, in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science. Since the 1960s, the term has also been used in numerous non-scientific contexts, such as in Humanities to describe a profound change in a fundamental model or perception of events, even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences. Kuhns theory is an example of the important role which lateral thinking and creativity play in creating knowledge. People easily limit creative thinking to subjects such as the Arts, however this theory support the idea that creative thinking as type of a common groundwork can be used to create a theory which can be interpreted across different