Wrote a post on how software terms are simultaneously considered dogmatic and exact, while remaining often vague and creating confusion.
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Wrote a post on how software terms are simultaneously considered dogmatic and exact, while remaining often vague and creating confusion.
> humanities work to precisely define and further refine their concepts as they research fuzzy life observations in the spirit of the scientific method. That practice could bring clarity to software engineering.
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Wrote a post on how software terms are simultaneously considered dogmatic and exact, while remaining often vague and creating confusion.
> humanities work to precisely define and further refine their concepts as they research fuzzy life observations in the spirit of the scientific method. That practice could bring clarity to software engineering.
I'm sorry, humanities define terms precisely?
Then give the precise definitions of freedom, power, love, or being.
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I'm sorry, humanities define terms precisely?
Then give the precise definitions of freedom, power, love, or being.
@AdmSnackbar
I don't think you read the blog, though.In philosophy, for example, freedom and power are refined in many contexts if that is what you want to look for.
Now, if your argument is that humanities is worse at defining words than SWE, how does the latter define freedom? What would that mean? If it does not mean anything on its own in SWE, why should it mean anything more precise in other fields?
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@AdmSnackbar
I don't think you read the blog, though.In philosophy, for example, freedom and power are refined in many contexts if that is what you want to look for.
Now, if your argument is that humanities is worse at defining words than SWE, how does the latter define freedom? What would that mean? If it does not mean anything on its own in SWE, why should it mean anything more precise in other fields?
That's a pretty bad argument.
You claim, humanities define words precisely. That in itself is not true. Why would I have to prove that CS is better at it?
The entire premise is already wrong, in fact, redefining concept is the entire point of philosophy.
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That's a pretty bad argument.
You claim, humanities define words precisely. That in itself is not true. Why would I have to prove that CS is better at it?
The entire premise is already wrong, in fact, redefining concept is the entire point of philosophy.
@AdmSnackbar
> You claim, humanities define words precisely.That is not what I said. I wrote: "humanities work to precisely define and further refine their concepts" meaning they rework the language as life goes on. Maybe I should rephrase it, but I'm trying to say that in SWE - in other words people at work - we should work together to understand things the same way.
> Why would I have to prove that CS is better at it?
I didn't say CS and you don't have to prove it. Ironically, we are getting hung up on definitions, when that was the main premise of my blog post - the one from which I quoted the original excerpt.
> in fact, redefining concept is the entire point of philosophy.
It isn't.
