"Classifications have a world of their own," he continued. "After you begin to classify anything, the classification becomes alive, and it rules you. but since classifications never started as energy-giving affairs, they always remain like dead logs. They are not trees; they are merely logs."
"I'm not interested in classifications," he went on. "You have been classifying everything all your life. Now you are going to be forced to stay away from classifications."
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在《一件T 恤的全球經濟之旅》中作者寫到,「或許有人會問,對於現今全球貿易的辯論,單單一件商品的『傳記』能有什麼幫助?就一般情況而言,說商業及經濟研究方面的故事已不合時宜。我們從故事中學不到什麼教訓,爭議仍然存在,因為故事只給我們『軼事』的資料。以廣為現代人接受的方法論智慧來看,在
某時某地確實發生的事情--故事或軼事--可能深具娛樂性,卻不具知識意義:故事無法讓我們系統化地闡述理論、測試理論,或進行歸納。如此一來,今天的研究人員擁有更多資料、進度更快的電腦和更好的統計方法,然而個人觀察的心得卻愈來愈少。」
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並非由於城市的七大奇觀,或七十個奇觀,而是在於
它回答了你的問題。
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原載於ptt2
作者 mudskipper (無懼) 站內 mudskipper
標題 [唐望] If You Knew Anything about Clouds?
時間 Thu Feb 22 17:26:53 2007