All designers think they create new ideas. We have to qualify "new." Every "new" design I've looked at has an antecedent in a means for production, and thus may be new, depending on one's viewpoint. Some "new" architecture such as the Yokohama Ferry terminal uses technologies developed for constructing roller coasters - new application, old idea. If we boil it down its just geometry, steel and wood. However, on the humanities side, such a structure might bring something to the public consciousness that wasn't there before.... Can we say that it is new if it was already latent and conceivable through other means?
Alan
interesting, but i don't care much about their analytic distinctions. for
just one example, hume says:
"All ideas are copies of impressions...it is impossible for us to think of
anything which we have not antecedently felt by our senses....".
isn't this flagrantly contradicting our experiences as designers? don't we
create new ideas? it seems that hume, as evident in this statement,
conceives of the mind as a sense recorder, a mechanical device, perhaps
imperfect but still measured against the perfection of (the ideal of)
mechanism (or theatrical performance).
moreover, these statements do not reflect on language. i may be wrong by
not being familiar with all of his writing, but many philosophers at that
time took language for granted, as meta-phenomenon, not real and therefore
not worth attending. in my view. wittgenstein, austin, and bahktin have
essentially buried the monologism of that time.
klaus
klaus krippendorff
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the annenberg school for communication
university of pennsylvania
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Keith Russell
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Subject: Hume, Kant and error
For those interested in a snippet of historical comparison between "English"
(Hume) and "German" (Kant) models of error, take a look at this site:
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/humekant.html
Hume and Kant by Dr. C. George Boeree
This is a very interesting period of modern thought.
keith russell
OZ newcastle
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