- Dec 15 Mon 2008 17:41
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《愛說教》凱倫老師玩遊戲 Is this your _____?
- Dec 11 Thu 2008 19:54
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《碎碎唸》time management

老實說,我不是一個很會管理時間的人,
雖然說通常我一定會在事情的截止日前完成代辦事項,
但很多時候都是破在眉梢之際,一邊抱怨事情怎麼那麼多,一邊完成進度;
進入譯研所的眾多好處之一就是漸漸學會時間管理,(雖然還是常常在趕)
- Dec 07 Sun 2008 09:08
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《愛說教》凱倫老師玩遊戲 Is this a ________?
- Dec 07 Sun 2008 08:45
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《愛說教》凱倫老師玩遊戲 How much is it?
- Nov 30 Sun 2008 12:06
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《心情》Abby got married
- Nov 27 Thu 2008 23:06
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《碎碎念》碎碎念之蠟燭兩頭燒
- Nov 27 Thu 2008 19:07
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《翻譯作品評析》paradigm shift
What is so-called "paradigm shift"?
Info found on the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
Paradigm shift, sometimes known as extraordinary science or revolutionary science, is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his influential 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science. It is in contrast to his idea of normal science.
It has since become widely applied to many other realms of human experience as well even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences. According to Kuhn, "A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share.” (The Essential Tension, 1997). Unlike a normal scientist, Kuhn held, “a student in the humanities has constantly before him a number of competing and incommensurable solutions to these problems, solutions that he must ultimately examine for himself.” (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions). A scientist, however, once a paradigm shift is complete, is not allowed the luxury, for example, of positing the possibility that miasma causes the flu or that ether carries light in the same way that a critic in the Humanities can choose to adopt a 19th century theory of poetics, for instance, or select Marxism as an explanation of economic behaviour. Thus, paradigms, in the sense that Kuhn used them, do not exist in Humanities or social sciences. Nonetheless, the term has been adopted since the 1960s and applied in non-scientific contexts.
An epistemological paradigm shift was called a scientific revolution by epistemologist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
A scientific revolution occurs, according to Kuhn, when scientists encounter anomalies which cannot be explained by the universally accepted paradigm within which scientific progress has thereto been made. The paradigm, in Kuhn's view, is not simply the current theory, but the entire worldview in which it exists, and all of the implications which come with it. There are anomalies for all paradigms, Kuhn maintained, that are brushed away as acceptable levels of error, or simply ignored and not dealt with (a principal argument Kuhn uses to reject Karl Popper's model of falsifiability as the key force involved in scientific change). Rather, according to Kuhn, anomalies have various levels of significance to the practitioners of science at the time. To put it in the context of early 20th century physics, some scientists found the problems with calculating Mercury's perihelion more troubling than the Michelson-Morley experiment results, and some the other way around. Kuhn's model of scientific change differs here, and in many places, from that of the logical positivists in that it puts an enhanced emphasis on the individual humans involved as scientists, rather than abstracting science into a purely logical or philosophical venture.
When enough significant anomalies have accrued against a current paradigm, the scientific discipline is thrown into a state of crisis, according to Kuhn. During this crisis, new ideas, perhaps ones previously discarded, are tried. Eventually a new paradigm is formed, which gains its own new followers, and an intellectual "battle" takes place between the followers of the new paradigm and the hold-outs of the old paradigm. Again, for early 20th century physics, the transition between the Maxwellian electromagnetic worldview and the Einsteinian Relativistic worldview was neither instantaneous nor calm, and instead involved a protracted set of "attacks," both with empirical data as well as rhetorical or philosophical arguments, by both sides, with the Einsteinian theory winning out in the long-run. Again, the weighing of evidence and importance of new data was fit through the human sieve: some scientists found the simplicity of Einstein's equations to be most compelling, while some found them more complicated than the notion of Maxwell's aether which they banished. Some found Eddington's photographs of light bending around the sun to be compelling, some questioned their accuracy and meaning. Sometimes the convincing force is just time itself and the human toll it takes, Kuhn said, using a quote from Max Planck: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
After a given discipline has changed from one paradigm to another, this is called, in Kuhn's terminology, a scientific revolution or a paradigm shift. It is often this final conclusion, the result of the long process, that is meant when the term paradigm shift is used colloquially: simply the (often radical) change of worldview, without reference to the specificities of Kuhn's historical argument.
- Nov 27 Thu 2008 00:29
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《翻譯作品評析》大腦總指揮 前言譯評
《原譯文》p.20
一九九五年, 當我的著手撰寫一篇有關科學的未成熟性(Prematurity in Science)的論文, 我援引許多例子來說明當氣候未成熟時,許多先知是被忽略了,在其中,我引用了高德伯的遞變理論。一九六九年,高德伯第一次提出這個理論時,他的指導教授盧瑞亞認為是不可能的,但是過去十年來,
- Nov 23 Sun 2008 19:51
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《愛讀書》A Room of One's Own 小感
因為本次報告主題的關係,
讓我有機會把另一本在書架上閒置了好一陣子的A Room of One's Own《一個人的房間》拿下來,它是二十世紀初因憂鬱症纏身而隕落的女性文豪Virginia Woolf維吉尼雅‧吳爾芙的作品,事實上,它不是Virginia Woolf本人親手寫下的書,而是她在英國兩間女子學院演講《婦女與小說》的兩篇講詞所集結而成的文本;裡頭字字句句可感受到吳爾芙對當下社會男女性的不平權,以及長久以來女性所遭受的社會輿論,和女性在文壇上所承受的壓力。
- Nov 23 Sun 2008 11:16
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《愛說教》凱倫老師玩遊戲 What is this?





