[fonc] People and evidence

2013-09-09 Thread Alan Kay
Kenneth Clarke once remarked that People in the Middle Ages were as passionately interested in truth as we are, but their sense of evidence was very different. Marshall McLuhan said I can't see it until I believe it Neil Postman once remarked that People today have to accept twice as much on

Re: [fonc] People and evidence

2013-09-09 Thread Chris Warburton
Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com writes: Many of the commenters on this list have missed that evidence and data requires a fruitful context -- even to consider them! -- and that better tools and data will only tend to help those who are already set up epistemologically to use them wisely. (And

Re: [fonc] People and evidence

2013-09-09 Thread Tom Lieber
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Chris Warburton chriswa...@googlemail.comwrote: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com writes: Many of the commenters on this list have missed that evidence and data requires a fruitful context -- even to consider them! -- and that better tools and data will only