
事实的半衰期
The half-life of facts
Samuel Arbesman · 初版 2012 年
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“一种用以理解充斥于我们周围、且瞬息万变之信息的新途径。Arbesman 是一位科学计量学领域的专家,该学科字面意义上便是关于科学的科学——即我们如何知道我们所知道的事物。事实证明,大多数领域的知识都是以具有系统性且可预测的方式发展的,而理解这种发展演进能够产生极为强大的力量”——
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The half-life of facts
Samuel Arbesman · 初版 2012 年
“一种用以理解充斥于我们周围、且瞬息万变之信息的新途径。Arbesman 是一位科学计量学领域的专家,该学科字面意义上便是关于科学的科学——即我们如何知道我们所知道的事物。事实证明,大多数领域的知识都是以具有系统性且可预测的方式发展的,而理解这种发展演进能够产生极为强大的力量”——
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《事实的半衰期》(The Half Life of Facts),这是我找到用来解释为什么前互联网时代的成年人(也包括我自己)总死脑筋地认为事实永远不变的最有用解释。
The Half Life of Facts Most useful explanation I have found to explain why the pre-internet age grown-ups (that would also be me) get stuck thinking that facts remain always the same.
……针对各个学科对其进行量化。看看医学领域的事实变化相比哲学和宗教到底有多慢/多快,这挺有意思的。关于这个话题,Samuel Arbesman 写的《事实的半衰期》(The Half-Life of Facts)是一本很棒的读物。
…quantify it for various disciplines. It's interesting to see how slow/fast facts in Medicine change versus philosophy versus religion. A nice read about this topic is a book by Samuel Arbesman, "The Half-Life of Facts".
维基百科条目里有它的链接,不过我推荐《事实的半衰期》(The Half Life of Facts),正是这本书让我接触到了这个概念——读起来既有趣又有深度。
The wikipedia article links to it, but I'd recommend "The Half Life of Facts", which introduced me to this concept - it's an entertaining and insightful read.
更不用说人们是多么容易忘记科学被更好的科学所推翻的历史记录了:http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/
Not to mention how easy it is to forget the historical track record of science being overturned by better science: http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/
作者网站上有这本书第 1 章的节选:http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/
There is a excerpt from chapter 1 of the book at the authors website. http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/
手头有这本书的人能帮忙看一下引用文献里有没有 Geoffrey West、Joseph Tainter 或 W. Brian Arthur 吗?我正在快速翻阅一本 Arbesman 的《事实的半衰期》,失望地发现他(或者他的编辑)居然也陷入了那种严重的误区,以为加带编号的脚注和参考书目会贬低一本书的价值。恰恰相反好吗。(THLoF……
Can anyone with access to the book please answer whether or not Geoffrey West, Joseph Tainter, or W. Brian Arther are among the cited references? I'm flipping quickly through a copy of Arbesman's The Half-Life of Facts and am disappointed to see that he (or his editors) have fallen prey to the gross misconception that numbered footnotes and bibliographies somehow diminish a book's value. Quite the opposite. (THLoF…