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| Concepts | Simon | Wilson I 88 Concepts/concept formation/complexity/Simon/E. O. Wilson: (H.A. Simon (1983)(1): What distinguishes creative thinking from the more common patterns of thought is 1) the willingness to accept and gradually structure problem statements that are very vaguely defined 2) to deal continuously with the same problem for a fairly long period of time; and 3) to acquire comprehensive background knowledge in relevant and potentially relevant domains. >Creativity, >Thinking, >Method, >Knowledge, >Definitions, >Definability, >Background, >Pre-knowledge, >Bounded Rationality. 1. H.A. Simon, „Discovery, invention and developemnt: human crative thinking“ in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 80 (1983), S. 4569-4571. |
psySimn II Herbert A. Simon Models of Thought New Haven 1979 Simon I Herbert A. Simon The Sciences of the Artificial Cambridge, MA 1970 WilsonEO I E. O. Wilson Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge, New York 1998 German Edition: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge New York 1998 |
| Knowledge | Sellars | I XII Knowledge/Sellars: knowledge has the form "this and that is so and so." Known is something about a single object, but not a single object itself. >About, >Particulars, >Individuals, >Intentionality, >Word meaning, >Cognition, >Perception, >World/thinking. Sense data: Problem to make foundation for justification of them: the sense data of the empiricists are single objects, but only with respect to facts one can speak of a knowledge. >Sense data. I 59 It is wrong to think that knowledge must be inferential at all. (> Myth of the Given). I 65 Tradition: knowledge has episodic character and does not rely on pre-knowledge. - SellarsVs. Knowledge/SellarsVsTradition: observational knowledge does not stand on its own feet. - It requires language acquisition. - At the point of time of previous perceptions one must not have had the term yet. >Observation, >Observation language, >Psychological Nominalism, >Language acquisition. |
Sellars I Wilfrid Sellars The Myth of the Given: Three Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind, University of London 1956 in: H. Feigl/M. Scriven (eds.) Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1956 German Edition: Der Empirismus und die Philosophie des Geistes Paderborn 1999 Sellars II Wilfred Sellars Science, Perception, and Reality, London 1963 In Wahrheitstheorien, Gunnar Skirbekk Frankfurt/M. 1977 |
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| Wissen | Sellars, W. | I 64 Knowledge / tradition has episodic character: it does not rely on pre-knowledge. |
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