Re: [xsl] OT - Learning

[António Mota <amsmota@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot, it was just that i was hopping to get.

For the people who brag against, if they read my first post, i was
asking for something that i was sure i've read on the list, and even
if it's off-topic and not related to xsl, it was on this list. I was
trying and hoping the original poster remembers it and point me to the
right direction, as it did happen.

Thanks again, David, for remember it and

On 10/21/05, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Antonio,
>
> I think I remember that thread; I probably posted to it.
>
> There is a principle discussed in philosophy (epistemology) called
> the "hermeneutic circle", which goes back to the nineteenth and
> twentieth centuries (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer).
>
> Some more or less random Googling:
>
>
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/hermeneutics-
_1.html
>
> http://www.capurro.de/ny86.htm
>
> I don't recall the specific point that this paradox (needing to know
> something in order to learn it) is dealt with in practice by the
> making of assumptions and acceptance of basic principles on "say-so"
> until they are understood: maybe that was our contribution and not
> part of the classic literature (though it's hard to imagine it
> doesn't touch on this aspect).
>
> I hope that helps,
> Wendell
>
> At 09:12 AM 10/21/2005, you wrote:
> >I'm sorry for the OT, but i've spend two days searching the list
> >archives and my personal mail archive and couldn't find what i'm
> >looking for.
> >
> >Some months ago i recall a post on this lists about learning xslt /
> >serching for information, in wich the author refres to a theory, or
> >theorm, or postulate, that basically says something like
> >
> >"the difficulty in learning something is not knowing in what part of
> >the subject one must start learning, since one knows nothing about it"
> >
> >The author of that post also mention that it's because of such a
> >theorem that the learning process starts by assuming some "absolute
> >truths" like dogmas or postulates, start from there to learn the
> >subject, and later get back to those dogmas to understand why they are
> >true.
> >
> >So can someone knows what is that theory, what's is name and author,
> >or something related to?
> >
> >Once again, sorry for the OT, and thanks for any help.
>
>
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