Dear All,
Ken wrote (to me)
"so I'll be happy to see what Rittel has to say if you can demonstrate how - and where - Rittel's argument supports your view".
to clarify (i don't know if it is actually possible but i need to stay optimistic), I wrote:
"Acknowledgement: My thinking on this is very much influenced by Jonas and Harold Nelson, who, I believe, are influenced by Horst Rittel".
But intellectual influences take different forms. It is not what Rittel said or wrote, but his, let me call it, intellectual posture that I see reflected in Jonas and Harold. Rittel, in my humble opinons, was an original thinker with a good sense of humour and liked to turn upside down our beliefs.
One, of course, must read Rittel very carefully, and reference him with Friedmanian style of rigor, but there are more to these if one is really eagar to learn from people who have come before us. Amen.
Rosan
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