Jack Park wrote:
> Is sensemaking, maybe truth seeking, about persuasion?
By way of answer, and attempting to be _really_ persuasive, I'd like to
recommend this paper:
Hermeneutics and Information Representation
Matthew Chalmers
Computing Science, Glasgow University, United Kingdom
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~matthew/papers/hermeneutics.pdf
Abstract
By drawing from semiology, epistemology and philosophical hermeneutics, we
discuss the way CSCW models data, situation and activity-information
representation. We point out similarities between discourse in hermeneutics
and in the anthropology and sociology that predominates in CSCW, and propose
that a hermeneutic perspective offers a unifying view on the social science
and
computer science within CSCW. We discuss formalisation, adaptation, and
objectivity in our theories, methodologies and implementations, and offer
collaborative filtering and its extension, the path model, as examples of
practical approaches to information representation that show, support and
adapt with
activity in a hermeneutic style.
I'd also just like to point out, that although the abstract is not very
transparent, most of the first half of the paper is a rapid and _fairly_
solid introduction to these complex issues, all of which seem highly
relevant to OHS/DKR/Collaboration/Dialoguing.
It makes apparent that semiological models, tacit or explicit, with
epistemic and cognitive 'horizons', participate in all our theorising and
praxis, how aspects of these can be falsified (no positivism here), and the
hermeneutic circle's role in the evolution of it all.
Cheers,
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Park" <jackpark@thinkalong.com>
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [unrev-II] Visual stimuli & IBIS methodology
> At 05:31 PM 11/5/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >Jack Park wrote:
> > >.... wondering if Kelly's Personal Construct
> > > Theory isn't at work in an IBIS-style discussion. If that were so,
then
> > > Kelly would argue for some kind of sliding scale, with neutral being 0
in
> > > the center, and + and - 1 being the poles. One might then simply set
the
> > > slider rather than make a statement, and follow that with a
justification
> > > for the setting.
>
> Peter Jones wrote:
>
> >The quantitative correlate of persuasion?
> >Intriguing idea. It sounds nice, but it also sounds like a category
mistake.
> >Would the justification by itself suffice?
>
> Is sensemaking, maybe truth seeking, about persuasion?
>
> Jack
>
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