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[Apr. 28th, 2005|04:25 pm] |
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| course: reading materials |
[Apr. 28th, 2005|05:58 pm] |
Sparks of Genius, ISBN 0-395-90771-3.
Chapter 5. Abstracting. pp. 70-91
Physicist Werner Heisenberg defined abstracting as "the possibility of considering an object or a group of objects under one viewpoint while disregarding all other properties of the object. The essense of abstraction consists of singling out one feature, which, in contrast to other properties, is considered to be particularly important." p. 72-73. |
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| Empathizing |
[Apr. 28th, 2005|06:30 pm] |
Thomas Kuhn... tought his students to penetrate a scientist's work by recreating his o her life sep by step. Read the existing documents in chronological order, he advised, and when you can predict accuraterly the subject of the next letter or paper that scientinst writes, you are beginning to understand your subject. If you are wrong you must start again from some other perspective, because you have not yet grasped the essense of the life you study. You are not yet thinking and acting like the scientist.
Sparks of Genius, p. 188 (see prev. post). |
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