Given it is big ideas in universities week, and there isn't much here yet, I was wondering about what constitutes the smallest ideas?
For a long time I have been puzzled by a unit, what gives a unit unity, what happens when you unite units, or ideas. That was a big idea matter for LfSC, and sometimes done in cartoons by Boris van Loon.
The United States, we understood was a federation? The USSR? Nigeria? South Africa? Kingdom?
We understood from Linneaus that flowers did it, and that he hit matters with trees. When it came to rocks, religion had to give way.
We thought Aristotle had it in the poetics. Plato had Socrates doing it, but not for his was a different method, telling anyone what was... the Porphry made a stab at trees, which begat ontology which matters.
I argued Bacon had it, then Dewey (M not J) got it, though he was concerned with books on shelves.
Vygotsky got it, with water.
I'm reinventing the categorical imperitive, with the essence that it is imperitive to get the categories, but other than arbitrary power or reason, I can't think of any other matters with which to make a case.
Beyond successful sexual reproduction, does anyone know of any other principles which should be added to classification? The only design principle I can think of is that there is no design decision, except this one.
Panofsky gives us the Idea of Art Theory, but this is Panofsky and his Pals which is already a matter, and that throws in Popper, Gombrich, the Polanyis, Hyeck, Pevsner.
I'm also exploring how one thinks of social networks, web2.0, and all the ulrls stuff for there have to be practical implications, in theory.
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