Simplifying complexity : : rhetoric and the social politics of dealing with ignorance / / George E. Yoos.

• VerfasserIn: Yoos, George E.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Randall-Schab, Magdalena,
• Place / Publishing House: Warsaw/Berlin : : De Gruyter Open,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Simplifying complexity explores how to eliminate ignorance, which in the view of the author, is the purpose of the sciences and technologies and their consequent developments. More specifically, the book deals with the plurality of the sciences and technologies. It is about the way in which each of...

Table of Contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• A Preface on Aims
• 1 Rhetorical limitations in the use of frames and perspectives
• 2 Aging and complexity
• 3 The human animal and its ascendance from ignorance
• 4 The work of Herbert Simon on Artificial Intelligence
• 5 Circular thinking and linear exposition Circling around a point to discover the point
• 6 Modern and postmodern thinking: rational and interpretive thinking
• 7 Use of different types of graphic display to interpret meaning
• 8 Stasis, observation, and facts
• 9 The apparent realism of naïve realism How really naïve is naïve realism?
• 10 Various types of modeling used for finding correlations, designing structures, discovering contrasts, and making comparisons
• 11 A sense of place as fundamental to our thinking about models about equilibriums
• 12 Fenced-off and fenced-in equilibriums: Outside and inside boundaries and fences
• 13 The rhetoric and politics of standardization: Measurements and needs for precision
• 14 Simple-minded simplicity of simples
• 15 Rhetorical Unity in Narrative and Exposition
• 16 Boolean algebra, Tűring machines, and the Sheffer stroke function
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Index