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SHORT NOTE 60

New e-journal : CONSTRUCTIVIST FOUNDATIONS
http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/
by Adrian van der Meijden
16 October 2005, posted 22 October 2005

a.. Constructivist approaches question the Cartesian separation between objective world and subjective experience;

==== "question" "separation" implies that for any A & B. approached in Binary Logic, Boolean, It can be neither A nor B, BOTH A and B in union, either A or B, IF A B etc all over again. It conflicts with a point below about closed, and an agnostic relationship with reality, the social consensus reality being CALLED reality, "Brought forth" is aka projected or rationalised. I don't see how one can have cognitive processed, supposed going on inside a subject, which then emans that instead of observaing behaviour one takes subject's opinions prima facie which is tantamount to collecting other folks opinions and experiences. There's about five ways to collect "evidence" but that is not one of them. unless one includes most unreliable marketing and public opinion polls. In esseence the whole thing boils down to an academic pretense scientist making up his own mind which opinions to collect., which goes contra to statistic globalised surveys. And that is how IQ tests are made up.

Onelook: quick def : noun: an artist of the school of constructivism

M-Webster: Main Entry: con·struc·tiv·ism : noun

usaage: often capitalized

a nonobjective art movement originating in Russia and concerned with formal organization of planes and expression of volume in terms of modern industrial materials (as glass and plastic)

- con·struc·tiv·ist /-vist/ adjective or noun, often capitalized

#### Ineed it would take artistry with words.S Seee akso Wikipedia wiith 182 entries

Consequently, they demand the inclusion of the observer in scientific explanations; == That's not The scientific method, but a materialist dogma, not part of the SM

a.. Representationalism is rejected; knowledge is a system-related cognitive process rather than a mapping of an objective world onto subjective cognitive structures;

=== ie it's a fiction, oops aka Theory

a.. According to constructivist approaches, it is futile to claim that knowledge approaches reality; reality is brought forth by the subject rather than passively received;

== see udner closed

a.. Constructivist approaches entertain an agnostic relationship with reality, which is considered beyond our cognitive horizon; any reference to it should be refrained from;

=== "considered is not proof as per scientific method again. and 'cognitice = reframed good old intellect

a.. Therefore, the focus of research moves from the world that consists of matter to the world that consists of what matters;

== According to whom? "the subject" is a veryvague term, and includes whatever the Observer decides, which makes it dogmatic.

a.. Constructivist approaches focus on self-referential and organizationally closed systems; such systems strive for control over their inputs rather than their outputs;

==== "closed systems, makes it a form of solipsisim, so how come can that observer say anothing other than his own musings?

a.. With regard to scientific explanations, constructivist approaches favor a process-oriented approach rather than a substance-based perspective, e.g. living systems are defined by processes whereby they constitute and maintain their own organization;

=== That's in conflict with all of the above as in process things are always in change, unless what is meant means a nominalsied process, which, in their terms makes it substantive, like "how to boil an egg: etc recipe style

a.. Constructivist approaches emphasize the "individual as personal scientist" approach; sociality is defined as accommodating within the framework of social interaction;

==AHHH would that mean the standard consensus reality, in conformity with pre & post Quantum findings ignored., which historically will be Victorian.

a.. Finally, constructivist approaches ask for an open and less dogmatic approach to science in order to generate the flexibility that is needed to cope with today’s scientific frontier.

== Which conflicts with the previous point. And where's that consensus opinion of the SM rather than the legalised opinions of the social consensus reality? Calling it also a "self referential", meaning internally consistent conlficts with Establishment opinion., unless it insists nothing has changed. We've just coined ourselevs a new way to rationalise using newly coined meanings for old fashioned words. If one checks this out against other websites with a constructivist content it's not even in line with generally applied constructivisms, plural.

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Adrian van der Meijden