Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue, Important Public Statement

“What usefulness or validity does the model still have?” ‘Pragmatic Thinkers’ are Not as Smart as They Think

September 6, 2024
“But if the abstraction in the model is insufficient to describe at least the important and relevant aspects of reality, then what usefulness or validity does the model still have?”       I always wonder when a person speaks disparagingly about abstraction on their meaning and what each thinks is being expressed, what they […]

“But if the abstraction in the model is insufficient to describe at least the important and relevant aspects of reality, then what usefulness or validity does the model still have?”

 

 

 

I always wonder when a person speaks disparagingly about abstraction on their meaning and what each thinks is being expressed, what they are trying to point to. The concrete is discrete and exact in particular, and without abstraction there is **no intellectual sense**. It is impossible to embrace life in such an atomistic outlook. The intellectual outlook is pretty useful and valid.

 

 

 

Featured Image: Signposts the direct way to Heart versus Mind. An image with a signpost pointing in two different directions in German. One direction points to the heart, the other points to the mind. The stupidity conveyed here, in an image which crosses out verstand,  is not to understand that human cognition does not divide ‘heart’ and ‘mind’: thought and passion are one in belief; correctly so, as in history it has always been so, and will always be in the human condition (the denial of an emotional response has subtle feeling).

 

 

 

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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