Hola. ?Que es un hecho? ?Que es una teoria? ?Que es una creencia, una opinion, una idea? Veamos una repuesta, entre muchas posibles, en el Mensaje Uno abajo. Un hecho puede ser definido como una observacion que al ser confirmada muchas veces es aceptada como cierta. Pero sin duda los hechos estan inmersos y surgen en contextos complejos, caoticos. Una teoria puede ser definida como una explicacion tentativa pero bien fundamentada sobre algun aspecto del mundo natural, y que puede incorporar hechos, leyes, inferencias e hipotesis que han sido puestas a prueba. Sobre lenguajes hay muchos hechos, muchas teorias, muchas creencias, opiniones, ideas. El investigador tiene que seleccionar hechos, teorias y creencias para hacer su trabajo. Cuando uno escoge estudiar la Evolucion del Lenguaje, de hecho, ya ha hecho la eleccion de una teoria, El Evolucionismo. Al escoger el Evolucionismo deja de lado la teoria del Creacionismo. Cordial saludo. Ligia Mensaje Uno.-------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kerry Miller) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:30:44 -04 Subject: [evol-psych] Re: true believers > According to the NAS, a "fact" is an observation that has been >confirmed so many times it is accepted as true. A "theory" is a >well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural >world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences and tested >hypotheses. As the NAS points out, the creationist argument that >evolution should be taught "as a theory, not as a fact" confuses >the common use of these words with the scientific use. Indeed, if the creationists and literal fundamentalists applied their critique to ozone holes and global warming, rBGH and genetic engineering, etc. -- that is, that the *effects have not been *factually determined, and therefore society should stop condoning the practices -- they might succeed in casting some light on the uses of both belief and the word 'belief.' kerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe/unsubscribe/select DIGEST go to: http://www.egroups.com/group/evolutionary-psychology/info.html The Prehistory of the Mind by Steven Mithen http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500281009/humannaturecom/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet your Match! CLICK HERE to go to One & Only Internet Personals http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/1705 -- Check out your group's private Chat room -- http://www.egroups.com/ChatPage?listName=evolutionary-psychology&m=1 ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 09:34:06 -0500 From: Robert Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ligia Parra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello! Hi Ligia - sorry for the delayed response - this slipped by me in my busy schedule - here is info on the book - if you have trouble finding it I will mail you a copy - Bob Logan Released by the Stoddart Publishing publicity department - Oct 5, 1995 ************************************************************* THE FIFTH LANGUAGE: Learning a Living in the Computer Age by Robert K. Logan The Fifth Language updates the work of Marshall McLuhan by applying his ideas to the communications revolution taking place due to digital information technology. Logan's work interweaves ideas which touch on language, education, work, social class, information technology and management theory. He establishes the theoretical background for his study with a succinct and very readable summary of McLuhan's ideas. Logan develops a new theory of language by showing that a language is not merely a system of communication but also an information processing tool. He goes on to show that speech, writing, mathematics, science and computing form an evolutionary chain of verbal languages. A new language evolved each time the informatic capacity of the previous set of languages was exhausted. Math and writing arose to deal with the information overload associated with economic transactions of the agriculture based city states of Sumer. The schools that evolved to teach the new math and writing skills gave rise to scholarship and a new form of information overload ensued. Science or organized knowledge arose to deal with the new information glut created by the teachers in the newly established schools. Computing developed out of the need to cope with the information overload created by science. As Logan weaves his tale of the development of language he also shows how new educational, social, political and economic institutions arise. He then develops a theory of social class based on the notion that agriculture created the aristocratic class; and literacy, the middle class. He then speculates as to whether computers will give rise to a new social class - computerate class. Turning to education Logan shows how the evolution of language led to the evolution of education. He explains that the reason our schools are so out of touch is that they are Industrial Age institutions trying desperately to meet the needs of the Information Age. He suggests a radical new way of remedying the malaise of education by proposing that the core curriculum focus on the generic skills associated with the use of the five languages of speech, writing, math, science, and computing. He contends that the actual content of the curriculum, the topics that are studied are not important and should be chosen to cater to the students' interests. Once students have mastered the five languages they are then in a position to learn whatever topics or material they require for their work or their personal interest. Logan proposes an equally radical rethinking of training and education in the work place. He shows how information technology has completely changed the way in which we work and learn; and more importantly, he exposes how the relationship between work and learning has also changed. He explains that one can no longer earn a living by putting in time; but instead, one must now "learn a living'. The only form of job security is life long learning and a set of up-to-date skills that are in demand. His call for life long learning re-echoes the theme of McLuhan's earlier work and that of today's business management literature. Logan shows how McLuhan's work, Understanding Media, published over 30 years ago anticipated Toffler's observation of the crucial role of knowledge in the production of wealth (Toffler, The Third Wave, 1980 & Powershift, 1990), Hammer and Champy's technique of business process re-engineering (Hammer and Champy, Reengineering the Corporation, 1993), Tapscott and Caston's notion of the extended enterprise (Tapscott and Caston, Paradigm Shift, 1993), Senge's idea of the learning organization (Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 1993) and finally, Drucker's ideas of post-capitalist society and the demise of the dominance of the nation state (Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, 1993). Logan closes his book with a chapter on the Internet in which he shows how this medium recaptures the spirit of oral culture. He demonstrates that the new level of connectivity requires more than the mere re-engineering of business processes such as marketing, advertising, sales, customer support, and market research. According to Logan, it requires an actual alignment of these processes because of the way in which they are integrated by the Internet. Logan also suggests that the Internet has become an environment where learning and work come together. The Fifth Language: Learning a Living in the Computer Age by Robert K. Logan Pub. Date: October 1995; Cost: $26.95 *For more information please contact the Publicity Dept., Stoddart Publishing, (416)445-3333 or the author: Dr. Robert K. Logan Assoc. 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