Class slides from 08272013

1. DTC356
✤ Tuesday August 27th 2013
✤ EiM Chapter 2
✤ EiM Chaper 3
✤ Search Lab: 20 Questions
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2. Date
Alphabetical Order
simple, right?
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3. The Order of
Nature
✤ “natural” hierarchy
✤ Ranks all things. Everything
has a place.
✤ (May only seem natural to
those one the top of the chain.)
✤ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Great_chain_of_being
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4. Both Work, But Problems Occur When We Mistake Arbitrary Order For The Order Of Nature.
Natural Order versus Arbitrary Order
(Personal, limited, contingent, relative) meaning versus no meaning
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5. knowledge
happens when:
the joints of our ideas are the same as the
joints of nature.
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6. Why choose
This Point
?To Discuss
Pluto?
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8. What’s the problem with this?
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9. The Order of
Nature
✤ “natural” hierarchy
✤ Ranks all things. Everything
has a place.
✤ (May only seem natural to
those one the top of the chain.)
✤ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Great_chain_of_being
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10. Both Work, But Problems Occur When We Mistake Arbitrary Order For The Order Of Nature.
Natural Order versus Arbitrary Order
(Personal, limited, contingent, relative) meaning versus no meaning
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11. ❖ In physical space, some
things are nearer than
others.
❖ Physical objects can be in
only one spot at any one
time
❖ physical space is shared
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12. ❖ Human physical abilities
are limited
❖ the organization of the
information needs to be
orderly and neat
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13. Either / Or
Both / And
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14. Atoms
(physical objects)
Bits
(digital objects)
2nd Order of Order1st Order of Order 3rd Order of Order
Bettman Archive
Catalogs (not just
shopping catalogs)
Page 18: describe 2nd
order characteristics
and limits
Authority: someone
decides what goes
where.
Physical things:
• books on shelves
•silverware in drawers
• photos into albums
?
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16. 20 questions
✤ What are the rules?
✤ How do you win?
✤ What makes a good item to guess?
✤ What makes a good guess?
✤ How do you play 20 questions well?
✤ What makes it fun?
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17. 1. amazon.com
2. wikimedia commons
3. wikimedia commons
4. cow photo is public domain
5. Public domain (great chain of being)
6. CHRIS DRUMM (either/or)
7. LeVanHan GNU Free Documentation License
8. Some rights reserved by Eigappleton (dewey)
9. takomabibelot (statue)
image credits
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