Structuring Discursivity: A Field Representation

An unfinished paper on the subject of complexity and the use of fields, or categories. The Field is divided into 12 topics, with numerous sub-topics listed under each. The 12 primary topics are: Human Beings, Language, Reasoning, Thought Leaders, Formalisms, Science for Complexity, Models and Modeling, Processes, Education, Organizations, Products and Analysts. Although the two are unrelated, the subject matter of this paper is similar to “Managing the Unmanageable: Structuring Discursivity for the Domain of Complexity.”



An unfinished paper. This might be the start of a decent little paper explaining uses of fields. Dealing with the overall subject of complexity, this is a gigantic set of categories, or a "Field Representation" as Warfield would say. The Field is divided into 12 topics, with numerous sub-topics listed under each. The 12 primary topics are: Human Beings, Language, Reasoning, Thought Leaders, Formalisms, Science for Complexity, Models and Modeling, Processes, Education, Organizations, Products and Analysts. Although it does have same content and similar wording as Lecture 14 of MTU2000, this is not a slide show. "Structuring Discursivity a Field Representation" is a paper, should not be placed with MTU2000, but just listed as unfinished. It is just a cluster of unfinished short documents stored together, so has to have its own folder, which is "Discursivity and" and there are four files in the folder, all minor unfinished stuff. For the database record, it should be changed, I have changed the note field, and I have removed this paper from the Series MTU and it does not have series number MTU14 any more, either. Very similar documents might be found in Box 21, Folder 16 of Warfield Special Collection at GMU. The title for Folder 16 is "Structuring Discursivity for the Domain of Complexity, Lecture #14." which is a different title completely, it is just a Slide Show, not a stab at a new paper. Possibly Warfield decided to give up trying to write a full paper and just create a Slide Show with the same ideas, or some of the same.




Additional Info

  • Category: Complexity, Research History
  • Size: 11 m 5 s
  • Description: Email
  • Publication Year: 2001
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