User talk:Vir/sandbox/knowledge structures

Outline

(rough draft)

• 1. Preliminaries
• 2. List of basic categories
• 3. Types of basic knowledge structures
• 4. Multi-dimensional structures
• 5. Dynamics
• 6. Applied examples -- some top level circle-based multi-dimensioal topic trees

Detailed outline

• 1. Preliminaries
  • bias (POV) in basic categories; need multiple categories and structures of categories for multiple points of view
  • types of variables (binary, categorical, variable; qualitative/quantitative)
  • summary of types of structures

• 2. List of basic categories (again, rough draft)
  • time (history)
  • space (geography)
  • time - space (cosmology)
  • large - small (macro / micro in physics, biology, geology, sociology etc, e.g., ecosystem/flock, earth/island, country/community -- note that Earth, a combined macro category (among many other things), is a top level propaedia category)
  • energy - matter
  • life - inorganic world (biology / physics)
  • subjectivity - objectivity (for example, humanities & social sciences / sciences)
    • related: mind - body; knowledge (or ideas) - experience
  • material - immaterial; or physical - mental
    • related: to above but distinct
  • human and nonhuman worlds (humanities & social sciences / sciences) - obviously related to just above
    • related: (lived experience vs. various studies & knowledge realms)
    • also related: society/social (macro human) - nature/natural worlds; social sciences - natural sciences
    • also related: aware - unaware (also, conscious or sentient - insentient)
  • practical - abstract (for instance, technology & science; applied math & academic math; similar to applied / theoretical -- this is quite distinct from physical - mental, as there can be practical thinking)
  • value - value neutral - (for instance, aesthetics & morality / instrumentality)
  • emotive - nonemotive
  • play - work (or leisure - work)

• 3. Types of basic knowledge structures
  • Tables: 2 by 2 up to n x n tables
  • Grids and Matrixes
  • Trees and networks
  • Circles
  • 3D: spiral and spheres

• 4. Multi-dimensional structures
  • combining some of the above elements in 2-D & 3-D structures (and theoretically, N-space, but perhaps not in this dicussion)

• 5. Dynamics
  • feedback
  • development and decay

• 6. Applied examples -- some top level circle-based multi-dimensioal topic trees