Hi Patrick and John -
I'm interested in both beauty and formality and see them as complimentary. To clarify, I am not looking for an example as direct as A become B or talking about religion in particular - more interested in dynamic models of information changing its perceived accuracy and value. May I refer you to the map "
History Flow Visualization of the Wikipedia Entry on Evolution" by M. Wattenberg and F. Viegas in the 2nd iteration of Places & Spaces at the New York Public Library last year.
What grabbed my attention with Johns example before and also a few weeks ago with scientific ideas falling in and out of favor - even being systematically blocked - are the implications for digital preservation and accurate search results today. I'm working on drawings with an informal specification for recording the ways any type of information from a piece of data to entire trends of thought can be assumed to be correct one minute and proven wrong the next. How can recycling versus "throwing in the trash forever" processes be used to keep compressed, remote, record copies of old ideas while (at least appearing to) remove outdated or just plain wrong information from current resources? Particularly interested in publicly accessible information online.
Should your proposed logical specification of terms be its own page within the wiki? Would any one be interested in working on showing dynamic terms to and from various topics so particular areas could be also used to confirm talking about the same thing?
Debbie
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On 5/2/07, Cassidy, Patrick J. <pcassidy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Debbie -
Not sure how formal your work needs to be, but
Richard Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion" has reclassified all discourses
on theology as "meaningless nonsense". Does that fit?
In the event that we want to further discuss meanings of
terms on this list, it might best serve our purposes if each of
us produces a logical specification of the terms as we understand them, and
proceed from there to discuss the differences thus exposed.
Pat
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Hi John,
Will look at the book. What I'm asking for may not
exist but very generally - I'm curious about existing work on classifying
information for reuse/further interpretation versus archiving or even better,
purging all together when more relevant and complete information becomes
available.
Debbie
On 5/2/07, John F.
Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Debbie,
I'm
not sure what you're asking for:
> Do you know of any examples
reclassifying previously
> valuable high ranking information to "TRASH
IT".
But it is certainly true that people constantly classify
information (and the things they refer to) in ways that
have all
kinds of political implications.
Following is a book with lots of
good illustrations of
that
point:
Schiappa, Edward (2003) _Defining
Reality: Definitions
and the Politics
of Meaning_, Southern Illinois
University Press,
Carbondale.
A quotation from that
book:
"When are definitions
political? Always."
One of Schiappa's examples is the word
'wetlands', whose
definition is a political football -- being kicked
around
by every conceivable special-interest group.
The definition
depends on whether you're a real-estate
developer, a biologist, a
conservationist, or a politician.
If the latter, the definition depends
not only on the
political party, but on the location of the
politician's
district upstream, downstream, or next to the
"wetlands".
Many of the definitions seem to be innocuous, but they have
subtle implications that can be exploited in creative
ways.
John
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