This Is great Don. Thank you. I am very keen also on this term that Is also brought in when discussing intuition, namely that one of conviction, as in belief, or perhaps commitment.
What would you say (would you even say) is the relationship between method, conviction and knowledge seeking?
I know this is a very broad question. But to me it relates to why one might choose a particular method over another. No?
Lily
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"Don Norman" <[log in to unmask]> kirjoitti 18.5.2014 kello 7.17:
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Diaz-Kommonen Lily <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Can you please tell us bit more about this word intuition and what you
>> think it really means?
>
> I usually don't like dictionary definitions but this one, the one built
> into my Apple Macintosh computer, fits my definition:
>
> using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious
> reasoning; instinctive:* I had an intuitive conviction that there was
> something unsound in him*.
>
>
> And how does something get known "without conscious reasoning"? By years of
> training and practice. (Psychologists say it is "automated." Some call it
> "compiled."
>
> In other words, things that are intuitive have taken years of practice.
>
> Most people want to use the term to mean immediately obvious at first
> usage. Nope.
>
> My Apple dictionary goes on to say:
>
> • (chiefly of computer software) easy to use and understand.
>
> Which is indeed how many people use the word, and it is this sense that I
> fight against.
>
> When someone tells me they want me to design something that is intuitive, I
> say, "oh, you mean you want something that takes years to learn."
>
> (I am, of course, being cynical, because easy to learn and use does not
> necessarily mean subconscious, and moreover, many things can be easy by
> building upon the existing base of well-learned, skilled behavior that is
> indeed subconscious and legitimately intuitive. Just as intuitive as
> eating with chopsticks, or handwriting, or for a skilled designer,
> sketching a figure.)
>
> Don
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>
>
>
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