Capturing Intuitive Knowledge in Procedural Description

Trying to capture intuitive knowledge is a little like trying to capture the moment between what just happened and what is about to happen. Or to quote a famous philosopher, "You can't put your foot in the same river once." The problem is tha tyou can only "capture" wh...

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Main Author: Bamberger, Jeanne
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6270
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description Trying to capture intuitive knowledge is a little like trying to capture the moment between what just happened and what is about to happen. Or to quote a famous philosopher, "You can't put your foot in the same river once." The problem is tha tyou can only "capture" what stands still. Intuitive knowledge is not a static structure, but rather a continuing process of constructing coherence and meaning out of the sensory phenomena that come at you. To capture intuitive knowledge, then means: Given some phenomena, what are your spontaneous ways of selecting significant features or for choosing what constitutes an element; how do you determine what is the same and what is different; how do you agregate or chunk the sensory data before you?
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spelling mit-1721.1/62702019-04-11T01:10:40Z Capturing Intuitive Knowledge in Procedural Description Bamberger, Jeanne Trying to capture intuitive knowledge is a little like trying to capture the moment between what just happened and what is about to happen. Or to quote a famous philosopher, "You can't put your foot in the same river once." The problem is tha tyou can only "capture" what stands still. Intuitive knowledge is not a static structure, but rather a continuing process of constructing coherence and meaning out of the sensory phenomena that come at you. To capture intuitive knowledge, then means: Given some phenomena, what are your spontaneous ways of selecting significant features or for choosing what constitutes an element; how do you determine what is the same and what is different; how do you agregate or chunk the sensory data before you? 2004-10-04T14:48:06Z 2004-10-04T14:48:06Z 1976-12-01 AIM-398 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6270 en_US AIM-398 4139494 bytes 2926946 bytes application/postscript application/pdf application/postscript application/pdf
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