5 Circular thinking and linear exposition Circling around a point to discover the point

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. A Preface on Aims VIII
4. 1 Rhetorical limitations in the use of frames and perspectives 1
5. 2 Aging and complexity 6
6. 3 The human animal and its ascendance from ignorance 12
7. 4 The work of Herbert Simon on Artificial Intelligence 25
8. 5 Circular thinking and linear exposition Circling around a point to discover the point 29
9. 6 Modern and postmodern thinking: rational and interpretive thinking 37
10. 7 Use of different types of graphic display to interpret meaning 44
11. 8 Stasis, observation, and facts 52
12. 9 The apparent realism of naïve realism How really naïve is naïve realism? 62
13. 10 Various types of modeling used for finding correlations, designing structures, discovering contrasts, and making comparisons 73
14. 11 A sense of place as fundamental to our thinking about models about equilibriums 84
15. 12 Fenced-off and fenced-in equilibriums: Outside and inside boundaries and fences 98
16. 13 The rhetoric and politics of standardization: Measurements and needs for precision 110
17. 14 Simple-minded simplicity of simples 130
18. 15 Rhetorical Unity in Narrative and Exposition 141
19. 16 Boolean algebra, Tűring machines, and the Sheffer stroke function 147
20. Appendix 161
21. Bibliography 165
22. List of Figures 173
23. List of Tables 174
24. Index 175