The Standard for All Measurements: Judgment @Comprehensivist Wednesday

What is the standard for all our measurements?

This exploration will examine Nobel-prizing winning physicist Percy Bridgman's operational analysis of length to reveal the essential role that judgment plays as the standard for all our measurements. Then we examine comprehensive measurement using the Measurements of Life schema in "The Design Way". The result may help us better shape our comprehensivity, our aspiration to understand it all and each other, and that, in turn, may help us better shape or design our lives.

Read my essay detailing the basic ideas: The Standard for All Measurements: Our Judgment

I further invite you to read the primary sources examined:

* The first three sections of Percy Bridgman's 1927 book "The Logic of Modern Physics" under the heading "The Operational Character of Concepts", namely "Einstein's Contribution in Changing Our Attitude Toward Concepts", "Detailed Discussion of the Concept of Length", and "The Relative Character of Knowledge".

* Chapter 6 "Interpretation and Measurement" and Chapter 8 "Judgment" in "The Design Way" by Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman.

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays".

Our comprehensivity is an innate-in-children but largely absent-in-schooling proclivity to comprehend the world and each other broadly and deeply. Its guiding epistemic virtue is to strive toward "the adequately macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive" (to slightly repurpose Buckminster Fuller's words).

Here is a playlist of introductory topics on comprehensive learning.

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

To see all forthcoming "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" events, look at the Wednesday events on the "52 Living Ideas" calendar: https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/calendar/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere http://y2u.be/ixgxwR29_WY

52 Living Ideas records Comprehensivist Wednesdays events and posts them on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer. Watch all their past Meetups at: https://www.youtube.com/c/52LivingIdeas?sub_confirmation=1