[Sigia-l] [spam] Retraction re: "IA" value posting I made earlier

[Andrew Hinton]

I'm convinced of one thing from Derek's comments.

He remembers a hell of a lot more from graduate school than I do.

;-)

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andrew hinton  <http://www.memekitchen.com/>
andrew [at] memekitchen.com




::derek at derekrogerson.com::wrote on 7/18/02 02:50pm:

> 
> 
> To use a phrase -- 'it depends' -- on what you want your classification
> scheme to do.
> 
> Do you want it to do what Karl Fast 'designed' it to do ? If yes, then
> you can hire Karl Fast to design it. I wouldn't expect anything less
> from it.
> 
> It is true, I cannot argue against 'schema' and 'classification' as
> non-design.
> 
> This, of course, is the main problem with these particular IA solutions.
> They are not IA at all, but some kind-of 'design.' These are not
> solutions. They are more accurately 'helpful fixes,' or, as I have
> indicated before, "the relay of some vain IAs transcription of
> representational content."
> 
> You begin to see how agency never appears at all in the face of such
> strong subjectivity (ie. you)  :-)
> 
> 
>