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Choosing a channel on cat television (2013)

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Class content I > Introduction to the class > Thinking about thinking and knowing > Knowing-how-we-know icons

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A critical idea in science is that we often describe only a limited set of phenomena. Trying to do everything at once doesn’t let us make incremental progress. This restriction of scope is represented by a “cat television” icon.

 

Cats often enjoy observing a small “piece of the world” restricted by a window frame. Similarly, a scientist must narrow his or her focus in a particular set of issues in order to make progress. I call this “choosing a channel on cat TV.”

 

Joe Redish 7/3/11

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