In one work, this thinker borrowed a term from C.S. Peirce and argued that "all thought would be totally impossible in a universe in which abduction was not expectable" while claiming that human learning was a stochastic process.
In one work, this thinker borrowed a term from C.S. Peirce and argued that "all thought would be totally impossible in a universe in which abduction was not expectable" while claiming that human learning was a stochastic process. He detailed the relationship between wau and laua in a certain New Guinea tribe, an analysis which would later incorporate ideas borrowed from cybernetics, and he claimed that knowledge belongs to a hierarchy of classes in his formulation of symmetrical and complementary schismogenesis. This pioneer of "photographic analysis" (*) and author of Mind and Nature formulated the double-bind theory of schizophrenia and argued that learning a teacher's implicit goals and absorbing contextual assumptions is critical to higher level understanding. The author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind studied the Iatmul tribe in Naven but may be better known for his collaboration on Balinese Character: a photographic analysis with another anthropologist. For 10 points, name this British-born anthropologist and public intellectual, the husband of Margaret Mead.
In one work, this thinker borrowed a term from C.S. Peirce and argued that "all thought would be totally impossible in a universe in which abduction was not expectable" while claiming that human learning was a stochastic process.
Gregory Bateson