The epsilon-knowledge:: An emerging complement of Machlup’s types of disciplinary knowledge

Machlup, F. used the words alpha, beta, and gamma to identify humanities, science, and social science as three distinct fields of academic learning and knowing, in addition to general knowledge. Gilles, W. and Paquet, G. identified a fourth type of disciplinary knowledge and labelled it as delta. This includes the knowledge of creative...

The epsilon-knowledge: an emerging complement of Machlup's types of disciplinary knowledge

Machlup used the words alpha, beta, and gamma to identify humanities, science, and social science as three distinct fields of academic learning and knowing, in addition to general knowledge. Gilles and Paquet identified a fourth type of disciplinary knowledge and labeled it as delta. This includes the knowledge of creative disciplines such as...