Philosophy of research - Part 01

 "Methods of creating new knowledge and how different cultures produce different systems of knowledge "

World is nothing without knowledge and the world is relative to the individual. Therefore, different individuals have different world. 

World that one’s create is relative to five senses, culture and mind. Therefore, I believe that the five senses, culture and mind all three are associated with the knowledge too. Each individual in separate cultures, they define the world or knowledge as they sense it or as they imagine. Therefore, the concepts of people, each culture explain the world and theories. There are several cultures such as Asian, eastern, western, Indian etc..

Methods of creating new knowledge are using five senses, mind, imaginary and through theories. Directly knowledge creates with the sense of perception. As an example, ancient people came to know that the earth goes around the sun with their power of mind. Different cultures percept knowledge differently with their senses. People think and explaining concepts different way. When considering to above example also the various cultures will sense the earth going around the sun or sun is going around the earth. 

When considering to the mind as a knowledge creating method, it is considered as that all the concepts are related to mind. In the other way, mind creates the concepts in collaboration with the sense organs. Concepts come as a result of imaginary. Therefore again we can consider that the different cultures imagine differently and therefore, generating various concepts and further will produce different systems of knowledge. 

Further, some perceptions cannot imagine. Different cultures believe and worship their religious leaders. When considering to the Buddhism they can imagine their lord Buddha. There are statues, pictures etc..but when considering to the Muslims and Christians, they cannot imagine or there are no statues of Allah or God. 

When considering to the theories and laws as knowledge generating methods, they are not imaginary. Always relate with facts the people who think in this way or who generate knowledge without imaging can be considered as abstract thinkers. There are some cultures who think differently and there are some abstract thinkers they develop different systems of knowledge. as an example, Newton observed that some objects fallen to the ground not going to the sky. Then he thought further on that and even beyond that abstractly and explained about the gravitational theory.

Likewise, there are several types of knowledge generating methods and the different cultures are responsible with produce different systems of knowledge. our interpretation of the world is influenced by multitudes of internal and external factors. The internal factors may be those factors which are inherent to ourselves. The external ones on the other hand are factors that associated with our environment such as the socio cultural factors.

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