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Author Re: Only vaguely on the topic of mathementical/formal foundations
Markus E Leypold

2007-03-06, 8:12 am


Barry Kelly <barry.j.kelly@gmail.com> writes:

> Markus E Leypold wrote:
>
>
> I don't know if you're deliberately trolling, but that statement flatly


No. But I don't know wether you followed the discussion. We have a
rather broad concept of theory here.

> contradicts how humans learn. 'Aimless experimentation' is called
> playing,


Playing is everything but aimless.

> and playing is a far more effective tutor than any theorizing,


I did say theory, not theorizing.

> because playing causes the learner to build up a model of what they're
> playing with, and thus they become better at internalizing theory.


You just contradicted yourself: A model is another name for a theory
here (wether verbalized or not).

Regards -- Markus

(Who definitely is not going to start this argument again if you don't
read the rest of thread after just dropping out of hyper space. And I
_alway_ like it if sudden vistors out of hyper space accuse me of
"deliberate trolling" after missing the 2 ws before that. Arrgs.).



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