Dear David
instrument = to put structure in = tool
The unexpected points to the need for some way of addressing new
information (to put form into), just as a surgeon might need a new
instrument to get around, passed, over and under an obstacle/organ to
get to a cancer. Now he knows what is there and unexpected, he can look
for a useful to address the unexpected. Some of the features of existing
research methods might be employed (gather data, compare cases).
Equally, a strategy/tool/device/technique might be all that is needed
and hence the unexpected is addressed at the level of a tool. This is a
kind of research that is self-consuming - solution found, move on.
The invisible research is possibly an even better example of tools etc.
We all make language and the more formal aspects of the language that we
make can be determined as rule-sets (grammars) which then look a lot
like tools designed for using and pulling apart language. For each nut
we have a spanner. This is also a kind of self-consuming research - we
use it up in its use.
Both might have fallen inside techne for Aristotle?
cheers on a warm Saturday
keith
>>> David Sless <[log in to unmask]> 09/20/08 12:15 PM >>>
On 20/09/2008, at 12:11 PM, Keith Russell wrote:
> both are cases of tools - tools needed (unexpected) and tools
> determined
> (invisible research).
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure I understand.
David
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