Jonathan B. Marder (marder@agri.huji.ac.il)
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 19:22:24 +0100
Hi Squad,
In my very first post I wrote:-
>Reality in science is established by collection of data. Reality is
>represented IN the data. The data tell us all we ever know about
>reality, so actually ARE reality. Sometimes reality doesn't appear to
>make sense and we have to go out and collect some more reality!
I also noted Horse's standard quote on the footer of his postings is:-
> "Making history, it turned out, was quite easy.
> It was what got written down.
> It was as simple as that!"
> Sir Sam Vimes.
This is true of Science or any other human experience. The data, or the
experience is what is recorded/remembered.
Thus my definition of DQ is that it is what get things noticed. It is
what causes an event to be recorded as data or experience. DQ is neither
good nor bad - this requires further evaluation.
I find SQ actually much harder to define. So far, the best I can come up
with is that SQ equals knowledge. It is experience in a form or pattern
in which it is remembered. Thus SQ develops based on DQ. However DQ also
depends on SQ because it is experience which determines what gets
noticed.
Jonathan B. Marder <MARDER@agri.huji.ac.il>
Department of Agricultural Botany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Faculty of Agriculture, P.O.Box 12, Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL
Phone: +972 8 9481918 Fax: +972 8 9467763
Web page: http://www.agri.huji.ac.il/~marder
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