How knowledge works:
You start with some existing knowledge (models/traditions/genes/memes).
Some of that contains problems (two parts contradict).
Try a modification to solve it.
Criticise to see if the solution works.
Modify as needed.
New problem.
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You started with "how knowledge works," but your flowchart seems to be an account of belief revision, not of how knowledge typically functions, which is practical usage without revision. An account of belief revision probably needs first an account of how knowledge does work.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "knowledge"; you cite "models/traditions/genes/memes," which I suspect all work in very different ways, and I'm skeptical that a theory that covers all of them can be detailed and concrete enough to be useful.
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