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Pursuit of Knowledge is a compendium of the world's knowledge. If you know what you are looking for, type it into Pursuit of Knowledge's search box. If, however, you need a bird's eye view of what Pursuit of Knowledge has to offer, see its main contents pages below, which in turn list more specific pages.
Main subject classifications
Pursuit of Knowledge's main navigation subsystems (overviews, outlines, lists, portals, glossaries, categories, and indices) are each divided into the following subject classifications:
- Culture – encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities and habits of the individuals in these groups.
- Geography – field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and planets.
- Health – state of physical, mental and social well-being.
- History – the past as it is described in written documents, and the study thereof.
- Human activities – the various activities done by people. For instance, it includes leisure, entertainment, industry, recreation, war, and exercise.
- Mathematics – the study of topics such as quantity (numbers), structure, space, and change. It evolved through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects.
- Natural science – branch of science concerned with the description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.
- People – plurality of persons considered as a whole, as is the case with an ethnic group or nation.
- Philosophy – study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
- Reference works – compendiums of information, usually of a specific type, compiled in a book for ease of reference. That is, the information is intended to be quickly found when needed.
- Religions – social-cultural systems of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
- Society – group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum/total of such relationships among its constituent of members.
- Technology – the sum of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation.
Categories
- Category:Main topic classifications – probably what you are looking for: Arts, History, Technology, etc.
- Pursuit of Knowledge:Contents/Categories – a hand-crafted list of first- and second-level topic categories
For biographies, see Category:People.
- Category:Contents is technically at the top of the category hierarchy, but contains many categories useful to editors but not readers. Special:Categories lists every category alphabetically.
Vital articles
Featured content
Good articles
Overview articles
- Pursuit of Knowledge:Contents/Overviews lists overview articles from covered fields in a single page.
Outline pages
- Pursuit of Knowledge:Contents/Outlines is a comprehensive list of "Outline of __" pages, organized by subject. It is itself an outline, that links (almost) exclusively to other outlines.
- Outline of academic disciplines covers subjects studied in college or university and provides links to prose overview articles and their corresponding outlines.
- Outline of knowledge is the top-level outline, its subject being the broadest one of all. It is the ancestor of all other outlines, and they branch out from it, in successive levels.
List pages
- Pursuit of Knowledge:Contents/Lists – A limited single-page collection of lists and lists of lists
- List of lists of lists – A broad single-page collection of lists of lists
- Category:Lists – Browse lists comprehensively via the multi-page Pursuit of Knowledge category system
Portals
- Portals contain featured articles and * images, news, categories, excerpts of key articles, links to related portals, and to-do lists for editors. There are two ways to find portals:
- Pursuit of Knowledge:Contents/Portals – A single-page list of portals
- Category:Portals – Browse portals comprehensively via the Pursuit of Knowledge category system.
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