The divisions you point to arise from the inherently divisive nature of that which all thinkers and their ideas are made of, the electro-chemical information medium we call thought. Thought operates by dividing a single unified reality in to conceptual parts. And thus, the overall human search for knowledge is divided in to categories…
The divisions you point to arise from the inherently divisive nature of that which all thinkers and their ideas are made of, the electro-chemical information medium we call thought. Thought operates by dividing a single unified reality in to conceptual parts. And thus, the overall human search for knowledge is divided in to categories and sub-specialities, which as you've suggested, then often come in to conflict with each other.
This insight seems useful to both science and the humanities, as both of these arenas are built of thought, and thus both are affected by the distorting bias for division which defines this medium.
The divisions you point to arise from the inherently divisive nature of that which all thinkers and their ideas are made of, the electro-chemical information medium we call thought. Thought operates by dividing a single unified reality in to conceptual parts. And thus, the overall human search for knowledge is divided in to categories and sub-specialities, which as you've suggested, then often come in to conflict with each other.
This insight seems useful to both science and the humanities, as both of these arenas are built of thought, and thus both are affected by the distorting bias for division which defines this medium.