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| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Example from Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Posted by: | Ann Olivier |
| Date/Time: | 2011/10/8 20:36:12 |
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Yes, indeed there are commonalities. I think that in science most conspicuously the step of hypothesization and the inventing of experiments are creative, synthetic sorts of thinking, as are forming of abstract proofs in math and logic, such as the disjunctive one you offer.?And, as you point out, literature is full of epistemology and psychology, especially insights into perception. I'm sorry Piaget didn't get into the arts, even if only superficially.?He was such an incredible observer.?Creativity is such a mysterious phenomenon I fear it will take someone with Piaget's ability to make real headway with it. (How come, for instance, out of all the infinitely possible ways of solving a difficult symbolic logic problem, how come some minds can produce valid and relatively short ones so quickly??Why don't they at least sometimes go through reams and reams of possible sequences before finding a correct one??The odds seem to be against finding a valid one fast. Hmm.?But let's not get into possible differences between computers and minds. |