On 12/3/14 11:57 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Thanks for digging into the sources:
>
>> >Further research attributes "all models are wrong, but some
>> >are useful" to W. Edwards Deming (a famous economist and
>> >statistician) in 1947!
> By following the references, I found that Deming attributed many
> of his ideas to Water Shewhart. (But there's no mention of that
> particular quotation.)
>
> But by looking up Shewhart on Wikipedia, I found
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_A._Shewhart
>> >Shewhart... possessed a strong operationalist outlook, largely
>> >absorbed from the writings of pragmatist philosopher C. I. Lewis,
>> >and this influenced his statistical practice. In particular, he
>> >had read Lewis's_Mind and the World Order_ many times.
> Clarence Irving Lewis was teaching logic at UC Berkeley while
> Shewhart was a student there. Lewis later went to teach at Harvard,
> where he wrote that book and became chairman of the philosophy dept.
>
> At Harvard, Lewis read the manuscripts by C. S. Peirce (donated by
> his widow in 1914). While he was chairman, Lewis initiated the
> project that produced 8 volumes of Peirce's collected papers.
>
> Among other things, Shewhart drew a diagram, which Deming called
> the Shewhart cycle. Deming produced variations (sometimes called
> called Shewhart-Deming cycles).
>
> Interesting point: Those cycles have similarities to the
> cognitive cycles based on Peirce and independently rediscovered
> by others. For examples and references, see slides 39 to 48 of
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/micai.pdf
>
> John
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John, (02)
As per usual, can I upload <http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/micai.pdf> to
slideshare, on your behalf? Note, you would have much broader
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BTW -- are you able to produce HTML renditions of your PDF based
presentations? Again, this is all to do with optimized distribution via
the Web :) (04)
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