Human knowing is examined as it emerges from classical empirical psychology, with its ramifications into language, computing, science, and scholarship. While the discussion takes empirical support from a wide range, claims for the significance of logic and rules are challenged throughout. Highlights of the discussion:
- knowing is a matter of habits or dispositions that guide the person's stream of consciousness;
- rules of language have no significance in language production and understanding, being descriptions of linguistic styles;
- statements that may be true or false enter into ordinary linguistic activity, not as elements of messages, but merely as summaries of situations, with a view to action;
- in computer programming the significance of logic, proof, and formalized description, is incidental and subject to the programmer's personality;
- analysis of computer modelling of the mental activity shows that in describing human knowing the computer is irrelevant;
- in accounting for the scholarly/scientific activity, logic and rules are impotent;
- a novel theory: scholarship and science have coherent descriptions as their core.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780792336808
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-7923-3680-8
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.08.1995
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1995
- Serie: Studies in Cognitive Systems
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1580 g
- Seiten: 368
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 26 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Mathematik | Informatik
- Mathematik
- Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
- Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
- Interdisziplinäres
- Wissenschaften
- Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
- Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Interdisziplinäres
- Wissenschaften
- Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
- Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik