Topic: problem of classifying information
Topic: entropy
ThesaHelp: references a-b
Topic: meaning vs. reference
Topic: sensitivity of software to change
Group: software maintenance
Topic: natural language as communication
Topic: gestural interfaces and marker menus
Topic: knowledge as interrelated facts
Group: psychology
Topic: declarative vs. procedural representation
Topic: programming by sequential implementation
Topic: spatial vs. temporal representation
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Reference
Bateson, Gregory ,
Steps to an ecology of mind , New York, Ballantine Books , 1972.
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Quotations
3 ;;Quote: despite lots of time spending tidying things, things get in a muddle by themselves
| 3+;;Quote: things become a muddle because there are more untidy ways than tidy ones
| 12 ;;Quote: a Frenchman can say something special by stopping his gestures; is part of the language
| QuoteRef: bateG_1972 ;;18 "And it would be a sort of cheating if the child used glue to make the blocks stand up in a position from which they would otherwise fall
| 21 ;;Quote: knowledge is all sort of knitted together
| QuoteRef: bateG_1972 ;;34 Macbeth III.l "Ay--in the catalogue ye go for men. as hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves are clept all by the name of dogs"
| 53 ;;Quote: dreams and animals deal in opposites without saying so; e.g., showing belly or fighting to affirm friendship
| 132 ;;Quote: we like to verify our view of our relationships; e.g., looking out the window when someone says its raining
| 137 ;;Quote: if I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
| 140 ;;Quote: the lack of simple negatives forces organisms to say the opposite of what they mean
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