[Marsha]
> This seems an example of the difference between
> 'knowing by
> experience' and 'knowing by abstract manipulation'.
> Before Archemedes discovered the mathematical
> principles of displacement, people knew through
experience which
> boats could float, which couldn't and which floated
better. After the
> Archemedes mathematical principles were understood,
boats could
> be better designed for future purposes with more
precise
> accuracy. What do you think? Can this represent
the Social
> Level vs the Intellectual Level?
> I don't let go very well.
People knew through experience. Ok, thus,
knowing via dq, which I think you and I understand.
Now, as to people knowing through experience and if
that knowing was social, until Archemedes discovered
mathematical principles of displacement? I believe
that's your question. Hmmm, good question! Was there
any abstract thought about boats before Archemedes,
thus, when people knew by experience? I don't even
know if this knowing by experience is social. People
abstractly planned this boat, I believe. Tradition,
the knowledge about this boat that was passed down,
for example, was discussed. People thought abstractly
about these boats, I'd say. There wasn't a boat and
then there was. Now, if this boat that was being made
was made by copying another boat that was nearby and
the builders looked at this other boat and just made a
new boat, I'm leaning social level. Yet, what of this
first boat? With that, I'm leaning intellectual,
something abstract was transferred from the head into
wood or grass. Now what of watching ducks float in
water? Well, that may trigger a boat, and here again,
I'd say something abstract glimmered in this person's
mind. Something was present in the mind that was not
on any other level to be found. It wasn't inorganic,
organic, or social. All's that left over is
intellectual.
blue and green,
SA
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