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Download full textBuchmann, Margret – 1982
Four questions are posed: (1) Is knowledge utilization a rhetorical evocation? (2) Is the conjunction of knowledge with utility part of a cultural system of common sense? (3) Is utility a normative or a descriptive concept? and (4) How does the concept of knowledge utilization figure in the specialized discourse of social scientists? This paper…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Divergent Thinking, Epistemology, Figurative Language
