人は擬似的な環境を通じてしか知りえない
【限りなく複雑で多様な実際の環境を知るには、選択、再構成、パターン化、モデル化する表現された擬似環境が必要である。これには、完全な幻想から科学的なモデルまで幅があるだろうが、どの程度忠実に現実を把握しているかの考慮が必要である。(ウォルター・リップマン(1889-1974))】By fictions I do not mean lies. I mean a representation of the environment which is in lesser or greater degree made by man himself. The range of fiction extends all the way from complete hallucination to the scientists' perfectly self-conscious use of a schematic model, or his decision that for his particular problem accuracy beyond a certain number of decimal places is not important. A work of fiction may have almost any degree of fidelity, and so long as the degree of fidelity can be taken into account, fiction is not misleading. In fact, human culture is very largely the selection, the rearrangement, the tracing of patterns upon, and the stylizing of, what William James called "the random irradiations and resettlements of our ideas." [Footnote: James, Principles of Psychology, Vol. II, p. 638] The alternative to the use of fictions is direct exposure to the ebb and flow of sensation. That is not a real alternative, for however refreshing it is to see at times with a perfectly innocent eye, innocence itself is not wisdom, though a source and corrective of wisdom. For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it. To traverse the world men must have maps of the world. Their persistent difficulty is to secure maps on which their own need, or someone else's need, has not sketched in the coast of Bohemia.
(出典:Walter Lippmann"Public Opinion",PART I. INTRODUCTION, I. The World Outside and the Pictures in Our HeadsPublic Opinion(Walter Lippmann))
(索引:環境,擬似的環境,選択,再構成,パターン化,モデル化)
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ウォルター・リップマン(1889-1974)
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