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Knowledge about Humans

people -- Lists of people

Social Sciences

Anomalous Phenomena:

Anthropology:

human being

Archaeology:

Economics:

cost -- currency -- demand -- inflation -- labor -- labor union -- monetarism -- supply -- unemployment -- transaction costs

Geography:

city -- communication -- continent -- countries of the world -- country -- migration -- population -- rural -- settlement -- tourism -- urban

History:

Alexander the Great -- American Revolution -- Charlemagne -- empire -- exploration -- invention -- revolution -- war -- World War I -- World War II -- Middle East: Israel/Arab/Palestinian, Gulf War, Terrorism -- Vietnam -- Korea -- Franco/Prussian Wars -- Napoleonic Era

History of Science and Technology:

Biography of inventors, explorers, and scientists -- List of scientists -- List of inventors -- History of physics -- History of astronomy -- History of chemistry -- History of medicine

Linguistics & Language:

alphabet -- English language -- grammar -- meaning -- morpheme -- phoneme -- syntax -- word

Politics:

bureaucracy -- capitalism -- democracy -- election -- government -- representation (politics) -- socialism -- taxation

Psychology:

behavior -- cognition -- mind -- language learning -- mental illness -- perception -- psychotherapy

Sociology:

crime

culture

Applied Arts and Sciences

Agriculture - Architecture- Business- Management- Marketing- Finance- Accounting- Communication- Computing- Education- Engineering- Family and Consumer Science- Health Sciences- Law- Library and Information Science- Public Affairs-

Culture

Classics, Dance, Entertainment, Film, Games, Hobbies, Literature, Music, Painting, Blacklight paint, Fingerpaint, Gouache, Sculpture, Performing Arts, Recreation, Religion, Sports, Television, Theater, Tourism, Visual Arts and Design Collage, Drawing, Colored pencil, Writing, Automatic palimpsest,

Technology

List of technologies

Transport:

Knowledge about Nature

Natural sciences

Astronomy and Astrophysics:

Big Bang -- constellation -- electromagnetic radiation -- galaxy -- planet -- star

Biology:

anatomy -- animal -- bacterium -- biochemistry -- cell -- botany -- DNA -- evolution -- fungus -- gene -- microbiology -- neuroscience -- plant -- virus -- zoology

Chemistry:

atom -- compound -- electron -- element -- metal -- mineral -- orbitals -- organic chemistry -- periodic table

Earth Sciences:

earth -- geography -- geology -- geomorphology -- landforms -- plate tectonics -- sediment -- soil -- water -- weather

Physics:

electromagnetic field -- energy -- force -- fundamental particle -- gravity -- mass -- Newton's Law of Motion -- superconductor -- wavelength

General (Abstract) Knowledge: Philosophy, Mathematics

Philosophy:

argument -- beauty -- existence -- God -- government -- justification of the state, the -- knowledge -- meaning of meaning, the -- mind-body problem, the -- obligation -- truth -- justification -- scientific method -- value --

Mathematics:

combinations -- derivative -- equation -- function -- integral -- limit (mathematics) -- mathematical proof -- matrix -- number -- order -- set -- theorem -- vector space

Statistics:

Bayes' theorem -- population -- probability -- Relative frequency -- standard deviation -- Statistical regularity

Notes

Critic of Main Page's topics

"Main Page"'s topics are (at the moment):

"Sciences".

Not all information in Wikipedia is science.

Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Mathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of 'figures and numbers'.

...

What common between Mathematic and Natural Sciences?

Applied Arts and Sciences

What does it mean Applied here?

Social Sciences and Philosophy

Philosophy is the critical study of the most fundamental questions that humankind has been able to ask.

The social sciences comprise the scientific study of the human aspects of the world.

What common?

Culture and Fine Arts

It is OK. I see, it is about something nice and good.

About this category scheme

Encyclopedia is a written compendium of human knowledge. All main topics are called "Knowledge about ....". We list such general subjects as beauty (philosophy) and landform (geology). So, rather than just sticking with Philosophy, we will have being, goodness, knowledge, and a number of other basic topics studied by philosophy.

I've divided all knowledge into four topics:

Knowledge about Humans.

All that concerns humans directly. From Language, Good to Politics.

Knowledge about Nature.

The natural world, especially in its essential form, untainted by human influence. From Big Bang, Life, Physics to galaxy. (Except anything related to Humans)

Knowledge about Technology.

In another words, Techlnology is nature altered by Humans. From invention and usage of fire, wheel, axe to Internet, Electricity, Nuclear reactor, Spacecraft.

General and Abstract Knowledge.

Anything that relates to humans, nature and technology.

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