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dc.date.accessioned2018-12-11T11:02:02Z-
dc.date.available2018-12-11T11:02:02Z-
dc.date.issued2018-
dc.identifier.citationHinchy, L.M. (2018). Tradition, transmission, transformation (Master's dissertation).en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/37291-
dc.descriptionM.A.CONTEMPORARY WEST.PHIL.en_GB
dc.description.abstractTradition can be understood as a universal device and as a particular expression within a community. Tradition-as-device operates on cultural knowledge as a transmission unit. Communities are partially composed by tradition-as-particularisation instantiated through its elements (ideas and practices). The dynamics of knowledge and transmission are investigated for effects on tradition change (i.e. modification to traditions-as- particularisations’ elements). Through schema theory and prototype theory, knowledge appears as interconnected, interactive with experience, malleable, recursive. Knowledge stems from conception and perception’s interaction. We can receive second-hand experience allowing for tradition-as-device. Tradition-as-device interacts with the lifeworld and fosters common ground by inaugurating primes (web of axioms) through rituals. Adherence displays degree-ness and equivocates to differing participation with elements and strength of primes for reasoning. Knowledge’s organisation reconfigures. Common grounds continuously establish and evaluate overlap in conception/perception between individuals. Schemas regulate information reception. Knowledge’s organisation reconfigures. Traditions-as- particularisations interact within multitradition adherents. Memory restructures knowledge in accordance to changing valence engendering transformation. Connectivity increases retention. Usage of knowledge affects memorisation. Communication’s intimating function permits introjections. Innovations/introduction affect tradition because of knowledge interconnectivity. Adherents reconceptualise themselves and their traditions-as- particularisations continuously in reaction to experience and environment. Tradition adherents conceive of heightened similarity as sameness allowing room for slow unrecognised mutation of information through progressive retransmission. Iterability captures variation within identity in continuity. Cumulative alteration leads to information loss. Information loss results in tradition-as-particularisation change.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessen_GB
dc.subjectTradition (Philosophy)en_GB
dc.subjectPerceptionen_GB
dc.subjectSchematism (Philosophy)en_GB
dc.subjectKnowledge, Theory ofen_GB
dc.titleTradition, transmission, transformationen_GB
dc.typemasterThesisen_GB
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dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Maltaen_GB
dc.publisher.departmentFaculty of Arts. Department of Philosophyen_GB
dc.description.reviewedN/Aen_GB
dc.contributor.creatorHinchy, Luke Michael-
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