Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

2013-10-16 Thread Nick Thompson
Are you a subscriber? I hit the pay wall. I probably can get at these articles via Clark, but it will involve starting all over again and looking them from the Clark portal. Do you have a smarter way? NIc k Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark

Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

2013-10-16 Thread Roger Critchlow
Nature publishes a letter: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7471/full/502303d.html Communication: Metaphors advance scientific research which references a perspective: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7464/full/500523a.html Communication: Mind the metaphor and another letter

Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

2013-10-16 Thread Nick Thompson
Roger, I have stayed out of this one, pretty much, but I want to say how much I liked this post. Hope I run into you some time. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

2013-10-16 Thread Roger Critchlow
I think the article's plea to see the liberal arts and sciences as a united front pursuing evidence and reason based explanations has something to do with Lee's rant about semantic infelicities between disciplines. They're all doing the same thing for a fuzzy enough definition of thing. In partic

Re: [FRIAM] Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Landmark 2013 IPCC Report: 95% Chance Most of Global Warming is Human-Caused | Weather Underground

2013-10-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 10/16/13 12:33 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Answer: Fire Bill and get someone who will do the fucking job. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-reinbach/the-gop-shutdown-is-sedit_b_4079692.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

Re: [FRIAM] Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Landmark 2013 IPCC Report: 95% Chance Most of Global Warming is Human-Caused | Weather Underground

2013-10-16 Thread Douglas Roberts
Some are just more gaping than others. Consider this rather exact analogy to our current political situation: So, Imagine that the company you work for held a poll, and asked everyone if they thought it would be a good idea to put a soda machine in the break room. The poll came back, and the majo

Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

2013-10-16 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Roger Critchlow wrote at 10/15/2013 08:24 AM: [...] correctly formed > explanations can be uninformed opinions or fallacious reasonings or imaginary evidence, and flawed as they are they can still sound true to some social population, so people get positive feedback for ridiculous explanations