Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules : True Statements in Knowing and Action * Computer Modelling of Human Knowing Activity * Coherent Description as the Core of Scholarship and Science /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
1995.
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| Series: | Studies in cognitive systems ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. The discussion addresses questions that are basic to advanced applications of computers and to students of language and science. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401585491 (electronic bk.) 9401585490 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0924-0780 ; |