Can you guess the source.

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Apr 16, 2007; 3:28pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Can-you-guess-the-source-tp523696p523739.html

Matthew Francisco wrote:

> This idea of 'reflection' or
> 'reflexivity' is an important concept in STS, perhaps the key concept.
[..]
> The category 'gender'
> has, however, precise boundaries but one must look at the social
> context in which that category is given meaning to figure out its
> limitations.  
So to identify completely equal and self-consistent sets of things, it's
necessary to look at a lot of context.   In cultural matters evaluation
of context subjective and hard to pin down.   For meta-analysis of
published work much of that subtle context has been collapsed into
conclusions and not available.
> Who is in charge of the category 'complex adaptive system'
> and why are they giving it the capacity to discriminate?
For example, SFI has backed away from using that term much.  Their
website now says "common themes that arise in natural, artificial, and
social systems", and then they list some of them.  I don't believe that
change was just because of lack of discriminative power, though..