I feel like images are helpful to people who want a direction to point them in, but ultimately they can be disastrous to the learning of the pupil. It's far too easy to simplify complex ideas and ignore important areas for the sake of aesthetic appeal.

Right, sometimes they can be like a street-sign giving some directions, or maps giving some context. Other times they can be like refreshers, for something you haven't looked at for a while.

For something reasonably simple, like justified true belief (knowledge), I think they're worthwhile. Digging into the gory details (like the Gettier cases), of course remains separate.

Interesting Venn diagrams.

But the above table, are Pythagoras and Feyerabend truly opposites? And how is Kuhn really in the anti-realism camp? After reading especially Kuhn (but also Feyerabend) this puzzles me, even if Kuhn does speak about the science community as a ...community.

More would I put the post-modernists there opposing the "Pythagoras". Of course I'm not the expert here...

For those who don't know it, here's "the greatest Venn diagram ever":

Thank goodness you are able to package the idea to others in a much easier model to understand. ;)

I quite like Venn Diagrams...

... so of my favorites:

















Meow!

GREG

For those who don't know it, here's "the greatest Venn diagram ever": — ssu

I'd like a rabbitduck version of that. :)

... so of my favorites: — Mayor of Simpleton

Cool. The Doctor has it all. (Speaking of.. We're still puzzled about the latest episode hereabouts.)

I'd like a rabbitduck version of that. :) — jorndoe

Not quite a 'venn diagram', but well...

Cool. The Doctor has it all. (Speaking of.. We're still puzzled about the latest episode hereabouts.) — jorndoe

Really... exactly what wibbly wobbly timey wimey aspect wasn't unpuzzled?



Meow!

GREG