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| Annotationen:Thoughts about Space, Time, and the Concept of Identity/Ic5wyhdv2n | Thus, there is no basis for the assumption that re-presentations arise as internal images of an outside world; instead, it seems quite plausible that they constitute the material which the cognizing subject externalizes in the construction of reality. |
| Annotationen:Thoughts about Space, Time, and the Concept of Identity/M2albwakrd | the fiction of individual identity is the key element in the conceptual construction of the basic notions of space and time. |
| Annotationen:Thoughts about Space, Time, and the Concept of Identity/S11y3eyx2r | Space is the medium in which things maintain or, as the case may be, change their location; time is the medium in which they must conserve their identity lest they disappear qua “things” and be reduced to momentary apparitions. |
| Annotationen:Thoughts about Space, Time, and the Concept of Identity/Ugqn3gwl39 | “Sameness” and “difference”, then, refer to relations, and relations are instituted or constructed by the experiencing subject. |
| Annotationen:Thoughts about Space, Time, and the Concept of Identity/Uqsfc6c3s2 | It concerns experience alone, experience segmented into chunks, if you will, but not items that exist in their own right, independently of the experiencer. |
| Annotationen:Thoughts about Space, Time, and the Concept of Identity/Vc8cvn18ir | More often than not, this will do the trick, because the possession of specific memories is accepted as unquestionable proof of individual continuity. |
| Annotationen:Thoughts about Space, Time, and the Concept of Identity/Wsnqs105li | Relations, therefore, are not “perceived” but fictitious |
| Annotationen:Why Constructivism Must be Radical/Gutpr341qe | The meanings of words – and this also applies to every sign and every symbol – must be constructed by each user of the language individually, and this construction is based solely on the subjective experience of the particular parson. Hence it stands to reason that the interpretation of a word or a text will always remain an essentially subjective operation. |
| Annotationen:Why Constructivism Must be Radical/I8famzt2en | Instead of “truth.” constructivism speaks of viability and compatibility with previously constructed models. In other words, scientific models are tools. |
| Annotationen:Why Constructivism Must be Radical/Itbb43cpjy | Yet, analysis of the process which led a student to answer in a particular way is one of the best means available towards an understanding of his or her concepts and mental operations. |
| Annotationen:Why Constructivism Must be Radical/Py465bmka3 | Thus, instead of claiming that knowledge is capable of representing a world outside of our experience, we would say, as did the pragmatists, that knowledge is a tool within the realm of experience. |
| Annotationen:Why Constructivism Must be Radical/Tjgxbupvzd | If knowledge cannot be transmitted, but must instead be constructed by each student individually, this does not imply that teaching must dispense with language. It implies only that the role of language must be conceived of differently. |
| Annotationen:Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician/Bpv4m0w0ac | For me, therefore, the world in which we find ourselves living, is the world that we have been able to build and maintain within the constraints we have so far experienced. – What could be more cybernetic than this? |
| Annotationen:Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician/Dbxypqgmvg | each user of a language must build up meanings for him- or herself. |
| Annotationen:Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician/Iftsmuex46 | On the strength of all this, I came to believe that the meanings we attribute to words and phrases, and to whole speeches and texts, are meanings, or built up of meanings, that we ourselves have generated in our own experience. They are the result of “self-regulation” – and the study of self-regulation is an integral part of cybernetics. |
| Annotationen:Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician/Poboue4lcr | concepts associated with words are not the same from person to person in one and the same language. |
| Annotationen:Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician/R51gk0jcsu | Knowledge was no longer expected to provide a “true” picture of an absolute reality – something the sceptics of all ages had shown to be impossible. Instead, it was to be seen as a means towards the organism’s equilibration. |
| Annotationen:Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician/Z949z5u0ur | Compatibility does not imply identity, it merely implies viability in the given circumstances. That is why, after having used a word in a particular way for fifty or more years, we may discover that it is not quite the way others are using it – it is just that the circumstances in which we have so far used the word happened to be such that they did not bring out any differences. |
| Annotationen:Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician/Zfykmweggk | In general terms, the reduction of an error signal is always a move towards equilibrium. |
