Hi Lubomir
Thanks for your advice which I take is sincere. However, may I ask you to listen
patiently and open-mindedly to what may sound like absolute nonsense to you.
Please try:
> Science is about generalization, and generalization is achieved through
> abstraction.
What if I say science is what we make of it. ( I stole this line from a
sociologist whose name I can't recall).
> Visual language is poor for concepualizing
> and communicating abstract ideas.
What if I say I am not sure because not much research has been done on visual
language comparatively.
> If you do not like verbalization, the
> solution is simple -- find an area where visualization is most productive.
What if I say we won't really know the limit or power of visualization unless we
try to use it outside of what we normally do with it.
> However, if you want both to work in science and use a visual language,
> then this is your hobby.
Thank you but I think I also have my own perspective.
> Do not requiest that the scientific community
> embark on your way.
I was just asking questions to help understanding. I am a minority of a
minority, (an asian woman) and I have known for a while now that I can't request
much. But, who is the scientific community?
> I see no reason for talking with pictograms when doing
> research. I use visual language for desing. Each media has its own
> advantages and disadvantages and our aptitudes will not change the
> "natural" laws of the real world. The problem of current scientific
> community is not that it is not visual -- the problem is that it is too
> much positivistically minded.
I think I was using the words and numbers vs visual to concretize the concept of
hegemony. I wasn't discussing the scientific community.
> However, I don't see concern in your post
> with science paradigms; rather, it is an attemt to shape science like design.
I don't know if I get what you mean. But from your previous postings on the
list, I can guess what you are saying. I hope you didn't think that I ever
thought that I have answers to all the questions that I asked. There were all
sincere questions that arouse when I tried to make sense of what I came across.
You see, Lubomir, the third month of my first year in the Ph.D. program, we were
given a special lecture on Ph.D. dissertation, what it is and how to go about
doing it.
These were the key words: original, independent, logical, conceptual,
methodological, and communicable.
I remembered having felt so 'knowledgeable' about what Ph.D. entails after the
lecture. But as I learned a bit more, the less clear I have become. After La
Clusaz, everything that I once thought absolute was called into question.
I assume that you have gone through similar process yourself and I hope you will
agree with me questioning is the first step to understanding even though the
questions seem totally out of line and that I should form my own opinions on
answers that are given to me.
Please keep posting. Rosan
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