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Knowledge as Story; Bodily Knowledge: Emotional and Aesthetic Components; Knowledge and Information

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The Poetry of Knowledge and the 'Two Cultures'

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This chapter discusses some aspects of knowledge-creation that characterise it as a human activity. They include the development of knowledge as a story; bodily elements of knowledge, including intuition; and emotional and aesthetic components of knowledge. As a corollary of these human aspects of knowledge, the chapter concludes that knowledge is not to be identified with information.

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Fitch, J.G. (2018). Knowledge as Story; Bodily Knowledge: Emotional and Aesthetic Components; Knowledge and Information. In: The Poetry of Knowledge and the 'Two Cultures'. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89560-4_6

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