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    The document discusses three types of knowledge: episteme (scientific knowledge that is universal and context-independent), techne (craft/art that is pragmatic and context-dependent), and phronesis (ethics involving deliberation about values with reference to action). While episteme and techne still have analogous contemporary terms, phronesis, which is pragmatic, variable, and context-dependent knowledge oriented toward action, has no direct translation in modern terminology.

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    Bent Flyvbjerg (2001). Making Social Science Matter.

    Why Social
    Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again. Cambridge University
    Press.

    Episteme. Scientific knowledge. Universal, invariable, context-


    independent. Based on general analytical rationality. The original
    concept is known today from the term “epistemology” and
    “epistemic”.

    Techne. Craft/art. Pragmatic, variable, context-dependent. Oriented


    toward production. Based on practical instrumental rationality
    governed by a conscious goal. The original concept appears today in
    terms such as “technique,” “technical,” and “technology.”

    Phronesis. Ethics. Deliberation about values with reference to praxis.


    Pragmatic, variable, context-dependent. Oriented toward action. Based
    on practical value-rationality. The original concept has no analogous
    contemporary term.

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