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发表于 2011-1-25 10:42:11
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"The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people."
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Within my cognition, it is somewhat wrongheaded to make a judgment of a society through its appearance and behavior of its people. The judgment has its possibility of existence while it merely gives a bunch of partial and biased answers. The speaker has given an unsubstantial assertion.
Admittedly, the way people look, dress, and act can possibly reveal their attitudes and interests in certain levels as the fact that presentation of entity can elicit essential. It is undeniable that we generally would initiate with the presentation of a certain thing under an investigation. For instance, in the realm of material science, we might first make an accurate observation towards the macrostructure of an alloy under different kinds of stress state or different strain velocities, which gives us statistics to make further analysis of the mechanical characteristic. Likewise, when we are investigating on ideas and values of a society, specifically aesthetic sensibility or morality, we would carry out observations on the appearance and behavior of its people.
However, we cannot tell an exact and comprehensive perception of a society immediately after an observation of its appearance in that it is not a one-to-one correspondence between entities’ essentials and their presentations. Regarding to the diversity of the expression process, a specific essential could correspondent to multiple and distinct presentations. The overlap in presentations, however, does not elicit any collision between different essentials. Hence, we can neither take a presentation to delegate an essential nor ascertain an essential by a presentation. This conclusion is evident in another case. In characterization of human-being, we use the phrase “erectly walk”, while it is basically inadequate and ridiculous to use this phrase neither to summarize the characteristic of human-being nor to qualify a creature that can erectly walk, such as kangaroo and etc., as a human-being. It is substantially superficial and partial to make a simple and categorical judgment by the appearance of things.
Moreover, the diversity of decoding process towards presentations renders the comprehension of essential different, which indicates that it is divergent that the apprehension of people with assorted culture backgrounds towards information. The investigating procedure of a presentation includes observation and evaluation, which both are, however, subjective. They both depend on the information that have perceived by an individual. As there is no absolute identical information system between individuals, the results of observation and evaluation are differed from subjects. Hence, as it is impossible for an individual neither to have the omniscience nor to observe the whole respects of people’s appearance and behavior in a society, one can establish a perspective within limited cognition and different visual angles, which cannot be confirmed as an implicit characterization. In addition, this kind of perspective flawed with uncritical and unsophisticated to a significant extant.
In support of this point, the error analysis theory can be the witness of it. In a series of measurements, there are two kinds of errors that results in the insurmountable distance between us and the truth, which are the inherent error and the computational error. The former is elicited by the limitation of the facilities and the random factors that exist in the process of obtaining statistics. The latter is derived from the theoretically inadequacy of the establishment of mathematical model. And those have given the scientific explanation towards the process of observation and evaluation with a precise comprehension of indeterminacy. To generalize this theory, in the “measurement” towards a society, the measuring means, as the speaker’s presumption, are just watch and tell, of which the process is too simple to approach the precise “statistics” of the ideas and values of the society.
In sum, we can give a judgment to some of a society’s ideas and values after an observation of its people’s appearance and behavior only with the acknowledgment that the judgment is ultimately subjective and superficial.
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