Hi David,
Sounds like we have been heading down similar tracks.
I heard the reverse on understanding argument you describe elsewhere and it
makes sweet sense from a subjective and conceptual view on the activities.
In that sense, the concept of 'understanding' is merely a state-space or
process timing marker.
A different question, and one that is more interesting from my view, is HOW
are done those processes of 'feeling there are no questions', or the
activities of 'changing from th estatis of 'understanding' to inquiry and
uncertainty.
Best regards,
Terry
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Subject: Re: Closure in Design Thinking and abduction
Hi all,
Just come up for air after a week in the bureaucratic equivalent of Heart of
Darkness, or was it The Castle? Anyway, a couple of thoughts on abduction
and closure:
1. Another useful way of thinking about the origins of abduction might be as
an intellectualised and consciously articulated version of what
behaviourists call operant conditioning. If this were so, then relatively
simple organisms might be regarded as practicing abduction.
2. Back in an earlier work (1986) in which I focused on the nature of
meaning, I wrote the following:
> [A]llow me to caution you about the nature of understanding.
> Understanding is achieved when, for a moment, there are no more
> questions to ask. Understanding is the dead spot in our struggle for
> meaning; it is the momentary pause, the stillness before
> incomprehension continues; it is the brief relief from doubt that is
> the norm. Thus understanding is a temporary state of closure. When we
> understand something we are effectively saying there is no more to
> ask, no more to question, all is revealed. But of course 'all' is
> never revealed and the sensation of certainty always passes. (Sless
> 1986 p i)*
I don't have the time to spend elaborating or discussing these ideas at the
moment, but I thought the might be useful to these unfolding (or entangled)
threads
* Sless D (1986)
In Search of Semiotics,
Barnes & Noble Books
Best wishes to all from a hot and steamy Melbourne, where bureaucracy never
sleeps.
David
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