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<small>''A message from [[Author:Gianni Frisardi|Gianni Frisardi]], President of the [ | <small>''A message from [[Author:Gianni Frisardi|Gianni Frisardi]], President of the [https://www.masticationpedia.org/our-story The Charity]''</small> | ||
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This site is a communication tool, and at the same time a place of collaboration among those interested in the study of possible evolutions of Medicine, specifically of '''Dentistry''', and for this reason it is a highly interactive site; a "'''wiki'''"<ref>A "wiki", according to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki&oldid=940605703 Wikipedia's definition], is «a knowledge base website on which users collaboratively modify and structure content directly from a web browser»</ref>, in fact, by express choice. | This site is a communication tool, and at the same time a place of collaboration among those interested in the study of possible evolutions of Medicine, specifically of '''Dentistry''', and for this reason it is a highly interactive site; a "'''wiki'''"<ref>A "wiki", according to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki&oldid=940605703 Wikipedia's definition], is «a knowledge base website on which users collaboratively modify and structure content directly from a web browser»</ref>, in fact, by express choice. | ||
It is the wiki of [ | It is the wiki of [https://www.masticationpedia.org/our-story the Charity], a non-profit British law organisation that aims to cultivate the studies and insights of the Medical Disciplines in the field of chewing (''mastication'' in English and in scientific literature, hence the name). | ||
To clarify '''why Masticationpedia''', and for what purpose it could respond, we could start from a point of philosophy of science, remembering that not always in the history of the mankind there have been unequivocally certain answers, because an answer can be coherent today and inconsistent tomorrow; and viceversa. Socrates, probably the first to become interested in gnoseology, said that what is essential is intuition, and along with it is pursuing the progress of knowledge through discussion. | To clarify '''why Masticationpedia''', and for what purpose it could respond, we could start from a point of philosophy of science, remembering that not always in the history of the mankind there have been unequivocally certain answers, because an answer can be coherent today and inconsistent tomorrow; and viceversa. Socrates, probably the first to become interested in gnoseology, said that what is essential is intuition, and along with it is pursuing the progress of knowledge through discussion. | ||