How do people form questions? What fields of study cover the concepts of question formation? Why do people question differently, within the same cultural milieu? [more inside]
posted by aramaic on Feb 11, 2008 - 11 answers

Fifty years from now, people will look back at 2007 and say "That was the golden age of ________." [more inside]
posted by electric_counterpoint on Oct 12, 2007 - 85 answers

What is the label for an entity or idea which began as nothing and came to have identity through its own fictionalisation? That is, notions diametrically opposed to 'simulacra' - in that the entity has no referent to begin with... [more inside]
posted by 0bvious on Feb 21, 2006 - 20 answers

EpistemologyFilter What is the important literature regarding knowledge creation via formalization/structuring? [mi] [more inside]
posted by badstone on Aug 18, 2004 - 7 answers

Is there a limit to scientific advancement? If there is only a certain number of elements to the universe, will there reach a technology plateau? [more inside]
posted by the fire you left me on Jul 17, 2004 - 24 answers