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✤ Wednesday January 22nd 2014!
✤ EiM Chapter 2!
✤ 20 Questions
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Date
Alphabetical Ordersimple, right?
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The Order of Nature
✤ “natural” hierarchy!
✤ Ranks all things. Everything has a place.!
✤ (May only seem natural to those one the top of the chain.)!
✤ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
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Both Work, But Problems Occur When We Mistake Arbitrary Order For The Order Of Nature.
Natural Order versus Arbitrary Order(Personal, limited, contingent, relative) meaning versus no meaning
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Arbitrary Order (ex: alphabetical)
✤ First: let’s talk about the difference between arbitrary and random.!
✤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrariness!
✤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random!
✤ What are the advantages of using an arbitrary order?
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Does Arbitrary = “Intellectual Dereliction?”
✤ “…inherent in the things to be learned we should be able to find intellectual connections.” M. J. Adler!
✤ The joints of nature: places where the world naturally comes apart!
✤ One theory of knowledge: where our ideas and the joints of nature match.
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Why choose This Point ?To Discuss Pluto?
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Categories Matter
✤ “Everyone’s perspective is valid.”!
✤ “Every perspective is arbitrary.”!
✤ How do we resolve disputes?
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What’s the problem with this?
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The Order of Nature
✤ “natural” hierarchy!
✤ Ranks all things. Everything has a place.!
✤ (May only seem natural to those one the top of the chain.)!
✤ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
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Both Work, But Problems Occur When We Mistake Arbitrary Order For The Order Of Nature.
Natural Order versus Arbitrary Order(Personal, limited, contingent, relative) meaning versus no meaning
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❖ In physical space, some things are nearer than others.
❖ Physical objects can be in only one spot at any one time
❖ physical space is shared
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❖ Human physical abilities are limited
❖ the organization of the information needs to be orderly and neat
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Some of our choices can shift from
Both / And
Either / Or
to
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Our job:
✤ Our job is to decide when either/or or both/and are the most helpful!
✤ For {users} in {situation}!
✤ HINT: it helps to think in terms of specific goals than it does in overall terms of right/wrong. (This does not require abandoning a particular sense of right/wrong.)
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1. amazon.com!
2. wikimedia commons!
3. wikimedia commons!
4. cow photo is public domain!
5. Public domain (great chain of being)!
6. CHRIS DRUMM (either/or)!
7. LeVanHan GNU Free Documentation License!
8. Some rights reserved by Eigappleton (dewey)!
9. takomabibelot (statue)
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