Posted by Lauri Gröhn on July 08, 1999 at 01:35:29:

In Reply to: On Science and Art posted by Yogesh Malhotra on July 07, 1999 at 17:21:40:

Let me first remind you that Kuhn was not Kuhnian.
(His own remark). Let me also also remark that theory
as a map is only a metaphor.

Concerning social sciences, they only have models, not theories.
And because those model may change the behaviour
of the objects of modeling (maps change the
teraain!) social sciences have the aspect of
being planning disciplines, a kind of technologies.

Knowledge management is not science. It
is a technology based on planning disciplines
changing the behaviour of its objects.

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Follow Ups:

• Re: Kuhn was not Kuhnian! Kees de Vos 04:52:30 7/11/99 (0)
• When The Right To Theorize Is Denied Martyn R Jones 22:18:30 7/08/99 (10)
  • Positioning KM Lauri Grohn 07:21:04 7/12/99 (9)
    • Re: Positioning KM ... or letting KM position itself Martyn R Jones 08:39:31 7/12/99 (8)
      • Re: Positioning KM ... or letting KM position itself Lauri Grohn 09:44:36 7/12/99 (7)
        • Knowledge Accounting System Martyn R Jones 10:35:11 7/12/99 (6)
          • Why KM is not a science (yet?) Lauri Grohn 11:22:30 7/12/99 (5)
            • Re: Why KM is not a science (yet?) Kees de Vos 06:09:57 7/14/99 (3)
              • Re: Why KM is not a science (yet?) Lauri Grohn 08:19:51 7/14/99 (2)
                • Re: Why KM is not a science (yet?) Dan Cohen 17:20:23 7/14/99 (1)
                  • Accounting or just statistics? Lauri Grohn 03:00:13 7/15/99 (0)
            • Reasons, Arguments, Shorthand and Anecdotes Martyn R Jones 13:54:48 7/12/99 (0)
• Re: Kuhn was not Kuhnian! Mezei 12:38:49 7/08/99 (0)

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