The importance of multimedia principle and emergence principle for the knowledge civilisation age

Abstract

The paper discusses two basic principles derived from results of studies concerning foundations of micro-theories of knowledge creation; these are Multimedia Principle and Emergence Principle. Their epistemic, systemic and metaphysical importance is discussed, together with their relations to the episteme of technology treated as a separate cultural sphere. A spiral of evolutionary knowledge creation is presented, in which an extended Falsification Principle plays the role of an objectifying feedback; this spiral is related to an episteme of Evolutionary Constructive Objectivism proposed earlier for the coming knowledge civilisation age.

Keywords

Micro-theories of knowledge creation / multimedia principle / emergence principle / episteme of technology / evolutionary constructive objectivism / theory of truth / metaphysics / evolutionary knowledge creation

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