[Air-l] conceptual lexicon

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

well, one of the problems with rigor is that it often causes us to  
create fictions and surrealities where actually phenomena will  
suffice.   rigor is a covering word for methodological ideologies.    
There is nothing particularly wrong with that, so long as we know  
that whatever empirical datum we construct is recognized as  
constructed.  similarly with the call for simplicity, simplicity is  
appropriate when the actual world is simple, but simplicity isn't  
necessarily the case and again in my experience, people simplify  
things, they cut out the complexity of variables in a fashion that  
while complete justified statistically or in other systems... might  
not be justified when you really work through the reality instead of  
its representations.
On Aug 9, 2006, at 8:50 PM, Ellis Godard wrote:


Jeremy Hunsinger
School of Library and Information Science
Pratt Institute
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