Terry,
On Dec 23, 2013, at 7:44 PM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> An example would be the assumptions that
> 'the design industry in the UK must be healthy because universities are
> increasing the number of design graduates each year'.
Should we assume from the quotation marks that this is a quotation? If so, who said it?
> By observation, academics and participants in design are more prone to the
> above problem because rhetoric is more dominant in their subconscious
> processing than logic. This leads to more opportunities for fallacious
> reasoning. The problem with 'seeming' and rhetorical reasoning is there is
> a high level of possibility of deluding oneself, coming to false
> conclusions, misunderstanding, being influenced by hidden biases etc.
> Science and mathematics was developed from the earliest times to reduce
> those problems.
Yes. Science has done an excellent job of reducing hidden bias. That probably explains the general lack of bias among people in the sciences.
> A well accepted solution to the above problems of fallacious thinking in
> respect to understanding design education and the design industry is
> careful use of logic, mathematics and formal reasoning.
Careful like saying "by observation" but neglecting to mention the nature of the observations or the observers?
> As an aside, in addressing these issues without rhetoric,
Seriously? Are you so naïve and unaware that you believe that this is even possible let alone that you do it?
> try to imagine how book
> design would operate at its present scale without the mathematically-based
> engineering design of printing, mass communication technologies, advertising
> media delivery, book distribution, financial processing, etc.
Try to imagine books if only technology and technologists were involved.
Gunnar
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