DTC356

✤ Tuesday August 27th 2013

✤ EiM Chapter 2

✤ EiM Chaper 3

✤ Search Lab: 20 Questions

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Date

Alphabetical Ordersimple, right?

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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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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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knowledge happens when:the joints of our ideas are the same as the joints of nature.

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Why choose This Point ?To Discuss Pluto?

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What’s the problem with this?

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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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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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❖ 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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❖ Human physical abilities are limited

❖ the organization of the information needs to be orderly and neat

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Either / Or

Both / AndMonday, August 26, 13

Atoms(physical objects)

Bits(digital objects)

2nd Order of Order1st Order of Order 3rd Order of Order

Bettman ArchiveCatalogs (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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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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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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