{"id":618,"date":"2003-03-04T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=391"},"modified":"2003-03-04T03:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T03:33:00","slug":"391-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/618","title":{"rendered":"Imported from MozDawg without title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid I read not only the dictionary, but encyclopedias too. My drill sargeant was <i>not<\/i> impressed to find my copy A. J. Ayers&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinity.edu\/cbrown\/language\/ayer_chap_3.html\">Language, Truth and Logic<\/a>&#8221; among the few personal belongings allowed me in my footlocker. So &#8230; let&#8217;s just say I don&#8217;t routinely expect to find myself in with the ruling paradigm or majority opinion.<br \/>\nThat being so, it&#8217;s a treat, while drilling down through something concerning transparent inference and the nature of community documents, to come across something as outspoken as this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devpsy.lboro.ac.uk\/eurodev\/internet\/genpsy.html\">European Society for Developmental Psychology<\/a> &#8220;Searching for research literature &#8211; Although the WWW is often written about as if it was a database of original sources (like a library), there is actually rather little in the way of complete &#8220;texts&#8221; to be found. <b>There is a lot of information on the internet &#8211; but not a lot of ideas<\/b>. Not a lot of expository text.&#8221; [emph. added] I would actually disagree with the opinion, but find it heartening that I&#8217;m correct concerning the illusion: whether the wealth of brochures we&#8217;re dealing with comes from corporate spin doctors or well intentioned free (as in speech) crusaders, brochures is what they remain. Hence the goad behind my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chebucto.ns.ca\/~ab006\/peeb.html\">Miss Peebles<\/a>&#8221; project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid I read not only the dictionary, but encyclopedias too. My drill sargeant was not impressed<a href=\"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/618\" class=\"searchmore\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}