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I often find it highly useful to flesh out terrain in my own mind before exploring the literature. You're remarks were extremely condescending and you could hav
by jshen 16y ago
I often find it highly useful to flesh out terrain in my own mind before exploring the literature. You're remarks were extremely condescending and you could have made the same point without the poor tone.
Oddly, you nearly admit the usefulness of it. "They've just been randomly discovering the territory". Discovering territory is valuable, whether it's random or not!
But the oddest thing is that you don't provide any useful information. You don't link to a page with the info you think we should read, or to a book on the matter, or a paper. Nothing, but condescension.
- Confusion 16y agoI'm sorry, it was not my intention to be condescending; merely to be critical. Searching for 'philosophy of science' should provide plenty of resources; which ones suit you is impossible for me to guess, because it strongly depends on background/prior knowledge, which is why I refrained from advising anything specific. As a starting point, http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=4100 http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=4100 may be a pretty decent introduction. There are torrents floating around if you want a taste.
- jshen 16y agoThe link looks interesting, but does it talk specifically about models and their relation to theories which is what we were discussing that you found to be a waste of time