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Let us distinguish knowledge from learning. In many cases they interact, in many other they are quite apart.
The detailed knowledge of the magnetic anomalies in Northern Finland is quite essential to the nickel industry. It is not something one learns.
An other slightly different example. There is much research going on in medicine. Knowledge is progressively conquered through different layers of scopes, applications and uses. After a while a more general picture will appear and maybe consolidate.
My impression is that whenever there is something new under scrutiny there are also new rules of the game (in an epistemological sense) that are taking shape and becoming necessary. And new behavioral, social, political, ideological, legal, economical implications.
In a way it is the old Pandora Vase Myth. The dialectic of Progress.
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