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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Psychology of Knowing
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Language, or Knowing and Human Expression
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Computing Versus Human Knowing
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Scholarship and Science
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About this book
- knowing is a matter of habits or dispositions that guide the person's stream of consciousness;
- rules of language have no significance in language production and understanding, being descriptions of linguistic styles;
- statements that may be true or false enter into ordinary linguistic activity, not as elements of messages, but merely as summaries of situations, with a view to action;
- in computer programming the significance of logic, proof, and formalized description, is incidental and subject to the programmer's personality;
- analysis of computer modelling of the mental activity shows that in describing human knowing the computer is irrelevant;
- in accounting for the scholarly/scientific activity, logic and rules are impotent;
- a novel theory: scholarship and science have coherent descriptions as their core.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Naur
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules
Book Subtitle: including True Statements in Knowing and Action * Computer Modelling of Human Knowing Activity * Coherent Description as the Core of Scholarship and Science
Authors: Peter Naur
Series Title: Studies in Cognitive Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8549-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3680-8Published: 31 August 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4609-3Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8549-1Published: 14 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0924-0780
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 368
Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Language, Systems Theory, Control, Philosophy of Science