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3.1 

Means to organise knowledge 

In the process of creating and producing knowledge, we use various means for organising 

and structuring our knowledge. The following are three commonly applied means of 

organisation for apprehending the real world: 

Identification of phenomena and their properties. In perceiving the real world, people 

identify phenomena and their properties. The result of this is a number of singular 

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phenomena characterised by a selected set of properties. The phenomena are singular 

since they have not been classified in terms of concepts.