Most of us think that applied knowledge consists of learning generalisable principles and THEN looking for places to apply them.
In this view, cases are simply examples of the principle in action.
But check this out:
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Don't know about medicine, but I suppose a good theory of truth/correspondence is also needed to start distilling the learned concepts
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How well structured are the domains you speak of? The context for this entire paper/thread is education in ill-structured domains (where, as an example, no universally generalisable principle may be extracted from an average case — think less math and more business/medicine).
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no structure in political/moral philosophy/economics,
except ontology, but that is an incomplete project, most concrete ontologies follow from "human behaviour"
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It's hard to find an order on which social value or the other is more important or primary
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