Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Saturday 10 March 2012

Artificial Randomizers - First use in Science

On CS Pierce

On the theory of errors of observations


"Pierce  deliberately used the properties of chance  devices to introduce a new level of control into his experimentation. Control not by getting rid of chance fluctuations, but by adding some more!"
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First experiment utilizing artificial randomizer....

Pierce C. S.  &  Jastrow J., 'On small differences of Sensation', Memoirs of the National Academy of  Sciences 1884(Washington 1885):73-83

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Hacking I. : A Universe of Chance
In Hacking - The Taming of Chance 1990

S Stigler, 
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