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Knowledge within a discipline develops according to the

principles of natural selection. How useful is this


metaphor?
KQ- How knowledge might evolve in discipline to different areas of
knowledge?
Thesis statement- knowledge is both provisional and contextual while
natural selection is the key aspect of variation, selection and fitness
Knowledge is applied in everyday lives through all ways of knowing, but
how long could it persist if we as humans keep finding the best of what we
already have.
Introduction 150 to 300 Natural selection is a theory where an evidence
is required to support a theory and a kind of counter evidence is required to
refute it. Knowledge is both provisional and contextual while natural
selection is the key aspect of variation, selection and fitness. Knowledge is
applied in everyday lives through all ways of knowing, but how long could it
persist if we as humans keep finding the best from what we already have. I
ask myself are we benefiting from new knowledge, if we are not certain the
best cannot be achieved. Knowledge within the discipline of natural
selection is itself problematic, though the usefulness of this metaphor could
be the best determining that the natural selection is manipulated by
humans. We ourselves are the problem because natural selection involves
evolution as an idea from which we accumulate bits that progresses further.
Using natural selection as a metaphor suggest us particularly we are
thinking of which theories are selected by the environment this can be
reified as an external reality where the humans ideas either leads to success
or failure, but the knowledge is again refined in some ways or the other. To
support these ideas I will use many Areas of knowledge, included natural
sciences or maths theorems, cultures or the language where ways of
knowing are involved linking to usefulness of the metaphor.
To what extent the natural selection not manipulated by humans will
remain true?

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