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A chart can summarize the taxonomy of levels of competency to some
extent clarified above (See Figure 1). It assumes the yet to be completed
definition of cultural practices and is open to further specification. While
the disciplines are in various respects the most structured and the crafts
more structured than amateur practices, it should be borne in mind that
there are far more crafts than disciplines and far more amateur practices
than the crafty and disciplinary combinations of practices put together. (If
"crafty'* does not currently signify "of or pertaining to a craft or crafts,"
it can be made to do so.)

(Figure 1)
Combinations of
Cultural Practices
/ \
Amateur Professional
/ ! \ / \
Crafty Disciplinary
/ ! \ / ! \

II. When is a Discipline ''Cultural"?

Theoretical disciplines, which are "sciences" in the strict signification, have
been played down in the foregoing sketch in order to counter-balance
tendencies, at least among academics, to think of them first. Whether
landscape archicture is a theoretical, practical, or some other sort of
cultural discipline still remains to be seen. A brief and surely incomplete
list can quickly show, however, that there are numerous theoretical
disciplines concerned with different aspects of cultural worlds: archaeology,
art history, biography, communications, economics, ethnology, geography,
history, linguistics, political science, psychology, and sociology. Many of
these, e.g., history, have many divisions within them that at least call for
the recognition of cultural scientific subdisciplines. Why the combinations
of cultural practices called physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics,
logic, etc., are not on this list will be answered presently.
As part of the reception of Phenomenology and, more broadly.
Continental Philosophy in North America during the last several decades.