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S/P/246. Conventional Paradigm and the Acquisition of Knowledge: In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?

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1600
DATE:
2007
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The paper examines how knowledge is acquired in the areas of knowledge (AOK) such as science, art and economics. Paradigms of knowledge acquisition and the methods of its application in different AOK are discussed touching on the role of conventions and the outcomes of braking conventions.

 

KEYWORDS: Knowledge, conventions, art, science, paradigm,