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- From: kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker)
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- Subject: Re: This word 'understand'
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.122459.5094@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 12:24:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.045239.3295@news.acns.nwu.edu> Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) writes:
- >In article <92355.223822SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >>I've got a semantics question - what Under the Tree do you people
- >>mean by 'understand'?
- >I would suggest my understanding of people may be inversely
- >related to the likelihood of their behavior surprising me.
-
- <smile> Strikes me that it should be the other way about, Albert;
- if I don't understand someone (ie, have no useful mental model (useful
- in the sense that it has some predictive qualities, that is) of them),
- then nothing they do can be "surprising", inasmuch as I have had no
- rational expectation of them either doing, or not doing, that thing.
-
- Myself, whom I suppose I have the best understanding of, in the above
- sense, I surprise constantly.
-
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